United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment confirming an arbitration award in favor of a union requiring defendant-medical center to discharge nurses and pay the union overdue fees and dues the nurses had failed to remit is affirmed where the state laws raised by defendant did not provide public policy grounds on which to reverse the arbitrator's decision, and the arbitrator did not exceed his authority in awarding monetary relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2006
• Published 05/24/2006

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BEAM, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerald M. Richardson and Matthew B. Robinson, St. Louis, MO, for appellant St. John's Mercy Health Systems.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jerome A. Diekemper and Janine M. Martin, St. Louis, MO, for appellee UFCW.