United States Ninth Circuit

In an employment contract dispute arising from an employer's refusal to honor plaintiff-former employees' severance packages, denial of former employees' motion to vacate an arbitration award partially against them is affirmed as the arbitrators did not manifestly disregard the law on a collateral estoppel issue because no "well defined, explicit, and clearly applicable" law existed to be disregarded.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/17/2007
• Decided 09/24/2007
• Published 09/24/2007

Judges

• BEA, Circuit Judge:, Before: DOROTHY W. NELSON, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence Allen Katz, Bennett Evan Cooper, and Elizabeth A. Schallop Call, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, for plaintiffs-appellants Julie E. Collins and Robert B. Ryan.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lonnie J. Williams, Jr. and Deanna R. Rader, Quarles & Brady Streich Lang LLP, for Defendant-Appellee D.R. Horton, Inc.