Opinion
February 9, 1999
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Paula Omansky, J.).
The subject arbitral award was properly confirmed since petitioner failed to establish the existence of any of the grounds for vacatur set forth in CPLR 7511. Those grounds are the exclusive bases for vacatur of an arbitral award ( Hackett v. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley McCloy, 86 N.Y.2d 146, 154), and provide no authority for the review petitioner would have us undertake of legal and factual matters properly submitted to and determined in arbitration. Where, as here, issues have been properly placed before an arbitrator, "questions of law and fact are merged in the award and are not within the power of the judiciary to resolve" ( Binghamton Civ. Serv. Forum v. City of Binghamton, 44 N.Y.2d 23, 28; accord, North Syracuse Cent. School Dist. v. North Syracuse Educ. Assn., 45 N.Y.2d 195, 200).
Concur — Williams, J. P., Wallach, Tom and Mazzarelli, JJ.