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Cornwell wants review of NFL discipline policy

...Sports attorney David Cornwell is challenging the NFL's right to discipline players by proposing to appoint an independent arbitrator to review - and have the power to change - rulings made by the commissioner. Cornwell, one of four finalists...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/09/pro_514018.shtml
NFL
Overtime

...Sports attorney David Cornwell is challenging the NFL's right to discipline players by proposing to appoint an independent arbitrator to review -- and have the power to change -- rulings made by the commissioner. Cornwell, one of four finalists...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/09/oth_514049.shtml
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Farmers want promised money

...compared with the whites," Mr. Simmons said. Independent arbitrators say farmers who were denied either had not applied...a spokesman for the USDA. And it's up to independent arbitrators, not the USDA or the courts, to determine...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/10/03/met_430235.shtml
Metro
Rocker's suspension reduced

...decision told the AP on the condition they not be identified. Shyam Das, making his first decision as baseball's independent arbitrator, also cut Rocker's $20,000 fine. The amount of the fine will be reduced to $500, one of the sources...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/03/02/met_282213.shtml
Metro
Business briefs: Nasdaq reaches record at closing

...jobs under the terms of its five-year contract with the Teamsters. In a decision released Wednesday evening, independent arbitrator George Nicolau gave Atlanta-based UPS 90 days to add the full-time positions. UPS also must pay back wages...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/02/18/bus_283266.shtml
Business
Rocker hit with MLB suspension

...March 1977 for punching his manager, Frank Lucchesi, probably will end up before Shaym Das, baseball's new independent arbitrator. Players Association general counsel Gene Orza told ESPN that it's a virtual certainty the union will file...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/02/01/oth_280843.shtml
Other sports
GM-UAW relationship could change as result of arbitration ruling

DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. is asking an independent arbitrator to fundamentally change the way the world's biggest automaker and the United Auto Workers have conducted their labor relations...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/07/24/bus_234116.shtml
Business
Judge orders arbitration for GM, UAW

...beyond the court's jurisdiction. After Judge Gadola last week admonished the two sides to set a date with independent arbitrator Thomas Roberts, the automaker and its biggest union set the first hearing for today. As a result, Judge Gadola's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/07/22/bus_234035.shtml
Business
GM strike talks drag

...UAW and GM lawyers are scheduled to return to federal court to update a judge on their plans to meet with an independent arbitrator, who will rule on the strikes' legality. "With the development of going to arbitration, the leadership wants...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/07/17/bus_233556.shtml
Business
First Amendment no shield for Rocker's racist comments

...players' association has been successful at blocking or reducing many penalties by forcing the issues before independent arbitrators. As the great jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote from the bench of Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/01/11/bas_278647.shtml
Baseball