Court Opinion

ID: 9629561
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:45:01.965486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:20.924451
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I join the majority. In Leechburg Area School District v. Dale, 492 Pa. 515, 424 A.2d 1309 (1981), I wrote: “Our inquiry ends once it is determined that the issue properly defined is within the terms of the agreement.” Inherent in this view is that the arbitrator’s interpretation must rationally be derived from those terms. However, the inquiry as to whether the interpretation is rationally derived has nothing to do with whether the reviewing court agrees with the interpretation or even whether the interpretation is, in the court’s view, “reasonable.” Instead, a rational interpretation is simply one in which the arbitrator applies the terms of the agreement to the problem at hand. In this case, the arbitrator’s interpretation addressed a problem within the agreement by the application of the terms of the agreement. This is a case, therefore, in which courts should not intervene.
Justice SAYLOR joins this concurring opinion.