United States Sixth Circuit

A judgment enforcing an arbitration award rendered in favor of an employee discharged for violating his employer's no-smoking rule is reversed where the basis for the award conflicted with the express terms of the collective bargaining agreement between plaintiff-employer and defendant-union.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/28/2006
• Published 02/28/2006

Judges

• Before:  RYAN, GILMAN, and COOK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Alan G. Ross, Ross, Brittain & Schonberg Co., Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.  Ryan J. Lemmerbrock, Faulkner, Muskovitz & Phillips, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Alan G. Ross, Ross, Brittain & Schonberg Co., Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.   Ryan J. Lemmerbrock, Faulkner, Muskovitz & Phillips, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.