PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Contract Arbitration
......Modify/Vacate Award: Other Bases & Issues
.........Errors of Fact or Law
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Where arbitrator clearly erred in ruling P's claim time-barred, depriving P, subject to mandatory arbitration agreement, of a hearing on the merits of an unwaivable statutory employment claim, no error in vacating award.

Neither the merits nor the sufficiency of the evidence is a matter for judicial review.

Claims that arbitrator made legal errors in award were unreviewable on appeal; Cable Connection exception inapplicable where issue of review for legal error not included in parties' arb agreement.

Where arbitrator applied CA law per agreement, award could not be reviewed for failing to apply CA law ••correctly••—arbitrator's award not reviewable for claimed errors of law.

Errors of fact or law held not a basis to vacate award.

Court will not pass upon validity of arbitrator's reasoning or sufficiency of evidence.