Board of Education v. Findlay Education Ass'n

Appellants, Heintzelman and the association, contend that the court of appeals erred in determining that the arbitrator’s award is contrary to law. Appellants argue that an arbitrator’s award is presumptively valid and, therefore, a reviewing court should not look to the underlying merits of the arbitrator’s decision but, rather, the courts should merely inquire as to whether the arbitrator delivered his bargained-for interpretation of the contract.

*131Appellants’ contentions present us with a question concerning the necessary degree of judicial restraint for a court to exercise in reviewing an…