United States Fourth Circuit

Where an arbitrator fails to comply with the role assigned to him by the governing collective bargaining agreement and exceeds his authority by ordering a remedy not contemplated by the plain language of the agreement, courts owe no deference to the arbitrator's decision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2000
• Published 11/14/2000

Judges

• Before MOTZ and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and STAMP, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Ronald E. Meisburg, Heenan, Althen & Roles, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Deborah Stern, International Union, United Mine Workers of America, Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:Anna M. Dailey, Heenan, Althen & Roles, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.   James M. Haviland, Crandall, Pyles & Haviland, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellees.