Seventh Circuit Finds Arbitrator Exceeded Authority in Interpreting CBA Involving Soccer Entities

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court and ruled in favor of the United States Soccer Federation, Inc. (USSF), the national governing body for soccer in the United States, in a case in which the United States National Soccer Team Players Association, the labor union for members of the Men’s National Team, filed a grievance over the use of the players’ likeness in a Tequila poster advertisement.   At issue was an interpretation of the collective bargaining ag