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No. 12-1981
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Charleston. C. Weston Houck, Senior District
Judge. (2:07-cv-02912-CWH)
Submitted:
September 9, 2013
Decided:
October 9, 2013
Affirmed by unpublished
PER CURIAM:
Maximum Air Flow Co. appeals the district courts order
enforcing
an
interest-arbitration
award
and
grievance-
Metal
Workers
represents
sheet
metal
is
an
workers
agent
in
the
and
local
union
collective
that
bargaining
that
handles
sheet
metal
ducting
for
heating
and
The
Agreement
contained
mandatory
dispute
clause,
which
established
that
if
the
arbitration
parties
award,
to
which
execute
was
an
to
agreement,
be
the
negotiated
interest-
by
the
area
Air
Flow
refused
to
comply
with
the
interest-
two
arbitration
Maximum
Air
Flow
awards,
responded
plus
by
costs
moving
and
to
attorneys
vacate
both
fees.
awards.
district
court,
after
hearing,
agreed
with
Sheet
AFL-CIO
v.
Maximum
Air
Flow
Co.,
877
F.
Supp.
2d
392
labor
management
dispute
and
thus
the
LMRA
provided
Code
vacate
an
Ann.
15-48-130(b),
arbitration
award,
which
to
be
applies
the
most
to
motions
analogous
to
state
that
borrowed
the
arbitration
statutes
when
statute
the
of
limitations
dispute
involved
from
state
vacating
an
arbitration award. See id. at 39798 & n.5. The district court
found Maximum Air Flow had not challenged either arbitration
award within the appropriate ninety-day period, and thus the
statute of limitations barred vacating these awards. See id. at
398.
Maximum Air Flow now appeals, arguing the district court
erred
in
applying
South
Carolinas
ninety-day
statute
of
bargaining
disputes.
The
issue
of
the
applicable
Having
reviewed
the
parties
submissions,
the
district
the
reasoning
of
the
district
courts
order.
Sheet
Metal