
Just in time for the Halloween season, the Oklahoma Supreme Court gives us a scary tale about buying a new car. In Sutton v. David Stanley Chevrolet, Inc., 2020 OK 87, ¶ 1 the Court finds that an arbitration clause
Just in time for the Halloween season, the Oklahoma Supreme Court gives us a scary tale about buying a new car. In Sutton v. David Stanley Chevrolet, Inc., 2020 OK 87, ¶ 1 the Court finds that an arbitration clause…
I have to confess something: I just returned from sunny California where I attended an excellent arbitrator training course put on by the American Arbitration Association and run by Dana Welch and Michael Powell! If you have an opportunity to…
Seems like I’m picking on the gig economy these days. I really don’t mean to be. But a former research assistant of mine brought an important, hot-off-the-presses decision to my attention, O’Hanlon v. Uber Techs., Inc., No. 2:19-cv-00675, 2019…
I don’t mean to be imprecise, but I think that the Eleventh Circuit may have recently issued the most luddite opinion I’ve seen in a good long while. See Managed Care Advisory Group, LLC v. CIGNA Healthcare, Inc.,…
For the next installment of the Bookworm, I’m recommending a very recent article by Professor Jean Sternlight: Mandatory Arbitration Stymies Progress Towards Justice in Employment Law: Where To, #MeToo?.
For anyone who isn’t already familiar with her work, Professor…
Four weeks ago, the boundary between public enforcement and private dispute resolution became more blurred. On September 4, the Justice Department announced that it had agreed to binding arbitration on the key issue in a current merger case—the market definition.
The enforcement…
The Third Circuit welcomed us to the fall arbitration season with an important decision for the gig economy, Singh v. Uber Techs. Inc., 2019 WL 4282185 (3d Cir. Sept. 11, 2019). Relying on the key logic of SCOTUS’s January…