The Chicago federal judge who just ordered Samsung Electronics to arbitrate Illinois biometric privacy breach claims by nearly 36,000 Samsung device owners is not the first judge to note the irony of compelling a corporate defendant to abide by the terms of the very contract it imposed on consumers.
But U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber is one of only a handful of judges – and apparently the first outside of California – to back up his order compelling arbitration with a ruling that the defendant must pay millions of dollars in arbitration fees to launch the cases…
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In this episode of the Arbitration Conversation, Amy interviews Chris Poole Chief Executive Officer of JAMS, the largest provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services worldwide. Poole joined JAMS in...
By Chris Poole, Amy SchmitzThis article first appeared on Securities Arbitration Alert, here. In what we are certain is a reaction to a flurry of multiple individual arbitrations that relate to the same event,...
By George FriedmanThe recently published ICC Dispute Resolution 2020 Statistics, revealing that 946 arbitration cases were registered with the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in 2020. The number of confirmations...
By Katherine Simpson
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