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123272P.pdf 09/05/2013 Alcan Packaging Co. v. Graphic Communications
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3272
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Labor Arbitration. The district court erred in vacating the
arbitrator's award of severance pay because the arbitrator was at least
arguably construing or applying the collective bargaining agreement and
federal courts must defer to the arbitrator's interpretation; unions'
request for an award of attorneys' fees is denied as the company acted
promptly to seek an order vacating the award and the company did not act
dishonestly or in bad faith. Judge Gruender, dissenting.