United States Ninth Circuit

In a dispute over the violation of an employment severance agreement, the district court's confirmation of an arbitration award is affirmed, where: 1) the severance agreement called for arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act; 2) the district court did not err by not conducting a merits review of the award; and 3) the arbitrator did not manifestly disregard the law governing the severance agreement. Denial of the appellant's motion for contempt is also affirmed, where under the plain terms of a permanent injunction issued by the court, the employer was entitled to delete documents from the appellant's computer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2012
• Published 02/03/2012

Judges

• Gould

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David L. Schrader, Dimitrios P. Biller