Section 13 Necessity of a Reasoned Award

• Library: Employment Discrimination 2008

The Supreme Court has not yet held that a reasoned award or opinion is necessary in an arbitration that adjudicates statutory employment discrimination claims. It appears, however, that courts will be willing to set aside an award in a close case when the court cannot determine the rationale for the decision because it was a one-sentence ruling, which is relatively common in commercial arbitration cases. See,e.g., Halligan v. Piper Jaffray, Inc., 148 F.3d 197 (2^nd Cir. 1998), cert.denied, 526 U.S. 1034...