I recently noted that Tamar Meshel, who is partly responsible for my arbitration addiction, did her best Meryl Streep imitation when I asked her to help me choose which arbitration decisions summarized on her Substack I should blog about.
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Employment lawyers spend significant time evaluating liability,
For years, employers have relied on arbitration agreements to keep employment disputes out of court. In 2022, Congress carved out an exception for sexual harassment and sexual assault claims, but the law didn’t clearly say what happens to the other
Here is the petition is W6LS Inc. v. Harris:
Question presented:
Whether a court may hold, based on an alleged defect in separate provisions of a contract whose own formation is undisputed, that no delegation agreement was
Family business disputes can turn on a deceptively simple question: Can an owner exercise a contractual or statutory right in one capacity while allegedly violating obligations owed in another?
Last week, we posted about two cases in which Circuit Courts tried to figure out when a party will be deemed to have waived its right to arbitrate through conduct inconsistent with the right, such as having “substantially invoked the
On October 7, the Arkansas Court of Appeals issued a significant opinion addressing dozens of insurers, insurance coverage applicable to a national public-health crisis, and an arbitration clause imported from a Bermuda reinsurer. In ACE American Insurance Co. v. Walmart,
Court finds appeal bar applies despite tribunal issuing an award rather than a preliminary ruling
