Underscoring an arbitrator’s decision-making authority, a state appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling that had vacated an arbitrator’s decision in a real estate commission dispute. In doing so, the court pointed out that New York law provides few grounds for undoing an arbitrator’s ruling.

A unanimous Appellate Division, First Department panel also wrote that, in the case before it, the arbitrator’s decision was “neither wholly irrational nor contrary to any strong public policy.”