Tag: FAA

This article first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert Blog, here. Just as we were putting SAA 2022-33 (Sep. 1)...

This article first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert Blog, here. The split Ninth Circuit Panel that had ruled a...

A Colorado appellate court recently held that arbitrators do not have the inherent power to sanction an attorney personally for...

Introduction For decades, arbitration practice has been conceptualized as an alternative way to resolve cases, acting much as a court...

This article first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert Blog, here. FINRA Dispute Resolution Services (“DRS”) has posted case statistics...

Introduction As our readers know, the Supreme Court just concluded a very busy Term that included an unprecedented five arbitration-centric...

This article was first published in CPR Speaks, The Blog of the CPR Institute, here. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled...

There has been a lot of recent legislative action aimed at reining in forced arbitration clauses in consumer and employee...

At her confirmation hearing Justice Kagan noted “So in that sense, we are all originalists.” (U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing,...

The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, No. 20-1573, on March 30,...

Introduction             The Supreme Court’s decision in Vaden v. Discover Bank, 556 U.S. 49 (2009), held that district courts can...

Just a few weeks ago, on March 3, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that amends the...

 Just as we went to press came word that, based on statutory construction, the Supreme Court has decided Badgerow v. Walters,...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in two of four cases involving arbitration it will review within a...

Just a reminder that SCOTUS will be hearing oral arguments next week on two cases involving arbitration. We reported in...

President Biden on March 3 signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. It became effective...

This article first appeared on Engage Blog by Hogan Lovells, here. President Biden is expected to sign into law legislation...

Just as we were finalizing the last Alert, we learned that a Georgia Trial Court had vacated a FINRA Award based...

In the decision, McDonnel Group, LLC v. Great Lakes Insurance SE, UK Branch. No. 18-30817, 2019 WL 2082905, (5th Cir....

In this episode of the Arbitration Conversation, Amy interviews Prof. Imre Szalai of Loyola University New Orleans, a nationally-known scholar...

This article was first published on the Securities Arbitrate Alert, here. In about a month, the Supreme Court has gone...

This article first appeared on Securities Arbitration Alert, here. SCOTUS again has eschewed an opportunity to clear up the split...

This article was first published on the Employment Class Action Blog here. In a published June 22 opinion, the Eleventh...

This article first appeared on LexBlog.com, here. Seyfarth Synopsis: Though it may sound esoteric, the question of whether “last mile” drivers...

This article first appeared in Securities Arbitration Alert, here. Introduction In civil litigation, discovery is the process by which parties...

This article first appeared in the Securities Arbitration Alert Blog. As reported in SAA 2021-19 (May 20), the Supreme Court...

“American exceptionalism” has been used to reference the United States’ outlier policies in various contexts, including its love for litigation. ...

This article first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert (SAA) blog, here. Margin debt in February grew to $814 million,...

This article first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert (SAA) Blog, here. The recently-introduced Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act has been...

This aritcle first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert (SAA) Blog, here. As we confidently predicted, the Democrats have reintroduced...