In the case of Akron Edn. Assn. v. Akron City School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 2022-Ohio-275, the Ohio Ninth District Court of Appeals held that the trial court did not err in vacating an arbitration award to a teacher in which the arbitrator found that the school district acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner since the school district did not violate the collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”) in non-renewing a teacher’s supplemental contract as a coach.
Here, the union argued that the trial court erred by vacating the arbitration award because the trial court contradicted the arbitrator’s factual findings and substituted its own opinion for that of the arbitrator.
The Court reasoned that the arbitrator exceeded the arbitrator’s powers because the arbitration award was not based on the language and requirements of the CBA itself. The Court also found that the arbitrator acted in an arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful manner by adding terms to the CBA that directly conflicted with the CBA’s non-renewal provision.
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Authors: Matthew John Markling and the McGown & Markling Team.
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