With no explanation, chose the best option from "A", "B", "C" or "D". was well known at the common law. A review of Illinois law reveals that while parties had a common law right to submit their differences to arbitration, the circuit court’s authority to enter judgment on an award is purely statutory in nature. As early as 1827, the General Assembly enacted legislation authorizing the entry of judgment on an award under certain circumstances. Rev. Stat. 1827, § 1. Such arbitration statutes existed on the books up until the time the Illinois version of the Uniform Act was adopted in 1961. See Rev. Stat. 1845, ch. VII, §§ 1, 7, 8; Ill. Rev. S . 95, 97 (1923) (explaining an arbitration award “might be enforced by an action at law” or, in the proper case, in equity through an action for specific performance); Duffy v. Odell, 117 Ill. App. 336, 339 (1904) (<HOLDING>); see also 3 Ill. L. & Prac. Arbitration &

A: holding that an arbitrators award should have been vacated
B: holding that federal common law governs equitable remedies available under erisa
C: recognizing that prevailing party has remedies available at common law to enforce arbitrators award
D: holding that prevailing party has no standing to appeal
C.