In a so-called arbitrator disclosure report, potential panelists list their background, education and training and other information, like lawsuits filed against them.
The firm also said the arbitrator should not be listed as representing the public because she works for Wells Fargo, a fact that was not mentioned on her arbitrator disclosure report.
Mr. Schneider's lawsuit quoted liberally from an arbitrator's report earlier this year that found "credible proof" that Mr. Malkin's firm, Wien & Malkin, "breached numerous ethical obligations" in its supervision of a number of properties, including the Empire State Building.
Shortly after, Lewis called the strike vote, and the union's democratic body, the House of Delegates, decided that if the two parties could not reach an agreement up until about 45 days after an arbitrator's report -- expected sometime in July -- all the public school teachers in the union would walk out.
In their complaint, the players, who each were suspended for six games, allege that the arbitrator, Harold Henderson, failed to report his ruling within the specified time, spoke to an N.F.L. lawyer without their lawyers present and improperly placed the burden of proof on the players instead of the league.
An arbitrator's fact-finding report on the contentious issue of Chicago Public School teachers' raises won't even be formally presented to the district and the teachers union until Wednesday, but reports already indicate that both sides will quickly reject it.
The report by the arbitrator, Thomas W. Brookover, noted that although the city's unemployment rate was officially 28 percent, there was evidence that less than 37 percent of the city's residents were actually working.
He suggests that the rules be modified to require defense counsel to investigate ties among its firm, its client and arbitrators assigned to a case and report them to the regulators.
He said committee members were "understandably angry" at the minister's refusal to even consider releasing the un-redacted report to an independent arbitrator for consideration.
In mid-July, the arbitrator had produced a "fact-finding report" intended to forge a compromise between the two parties.
But as The New York Times reports, the mayor believes arbitrators are often sacrificing the safety of children in order to "please both sides".
