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2008 Decisions                                                                                                             States Court of Appeals
                                                                                                                              for the Third Circuit

5-28-2008

Bayview Co Inc v. Intl Assn Heat Frost
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 07-3003

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                                                NOT PRECEDENTIAL

        UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
             FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

                       No. 07-3003

              BAYVIEW COMPANY, INC.
       d/b/a BAYVIEW INSULATION COMPANY

                            v.

         INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
        HEAT AND FROST INSULATORS, AND
           ASBESTOS WORKERS, LOCAL 2

                  Bayview Company, Inc.,

                                 Appellant

      On Appeal from the United States District Court
           for the Western District of Pennsylvania
                (D.C. Civil No. 07-cv-00041E)
     District Judge: The Honorable Sean J. McLaughlin

        Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)
                     May 23, 2008

Before: SMITH, HARDIMAN, and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges.

                  (Filed: May 28, 2008)

               OPINION OF THE COURT
NYGAARD, Circuit Judge.

         Bayview Company, Inc. appeals an order of the District Court to grant summary

judgment to appellee, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos

Worker’s Local 2. Because our opinion is wholly without precedential value, and

because the parties and the District Court are familiar with its operative facts, we offer

only an abbreviated recitation to explain why we will affirm the order of the District

Court.

         This case arises from a disagreement between the parties on whether Bayview

violated the “Project Stabilization Agreement” by employing certain workers to install

insulation on the construction project. Specifically, the union charged that particular

employees hired by Bayview did not have the proper training and experience. The union

charged that this violated the referral system established by the union and consented to in

the Agreement by the parties. The Agreement required arbitration of all such disputes.

         The arbitrator found that Bayview had violated the agreement in the manner in

which it employed workers at the job site, and he ordered Bayview to comply with the

terms of the Agreement. The arbitrator also ordered Bayview to pay to the Union an

amount equal to all back pay and benefits that it lost from this violation of the Agreement.

Bayview appealed the arbitrator’s decision and the District Court granted summary

judgment in favor of the union.

         In this appeal, Bayview alleges that the arbitrator’s award did not draw its essence

from the Project Stabilization Agreement and that the award was punitive, which the

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Agreement does not permit. It is well settled that courts must give strong deference to an

arbitrator’s decision if it “draws its essence” from the parties’ agreement. Koshatka v.

Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. 762 F.2d 329 (3d Cir. 1985). A review of the record

supports the District Court’s conclusion that the arbitrator’s decision and award of back

pay and benefits drew its essence from the contract. Accordingly, we will affirm the

order of the District Court.

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