United States Ninth Circuit

District court's judgment denying a former professional football player's motion to vacate an arbitration award, arising from a workers' compensation claim, is affirmed where: 1) petitioner has not met his burden of establishing that the arbitration award prohibiting him from pursuing California benefits violates explicit, well defined and dominant public policy as he has not alleged sufficient contacts with California to show that his workers' compensation claim comes within the scope of California's workers' compensation regime; and 2) because petitioner has not shown that the award deprives of him of something to which he is entitled to under state law, he also has not shown that it violates federal labor policy, nor has he shown that the arbitrator manifestly disregarded the Full Faith and Credit Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/06/2012
• Published 08/06/2012

Judges

• Fisher

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel