On February 26, UP’s attorneys filed a response to SMART-TD’s complaint seeking to set aside the SBA 1208 arbitration award. In summary, UP claims that the board did not fail to “conform or confine itself to the” scope of the board’s purpose, but rather operated within the scope of “whether and how” to implement Articles V, VI, VII of the 2022 National agreement.
You can view the response here in its entirety.
The court has ordered the parties to confer to agree to a scheduling plan for the case moving forward.