Arbitration Rules/Procedures

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 BL 434840 (W.D. Pa. Nov. 12, 2019).

The case presents a couple of important Arbitration

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., 2019 WL 4464301 (11th Cir. Sept. 18, 2019).  According to the court, Section 7 of

I can’t believe we’re more than a week into August!  I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m going to have to say goodbye to summer too soon.   I love fall, so maybe that’s not so bad?

Anyway, speaking of farewells, this week we get a back-to-the-basics refresher from the Eleventh Circuit on

Discovery in international arbitrations can be controversial for a lot of reasons. The District Court for the District of South Carolina recently added another one to the list in In re Servotronics, Inc., No. 2:18-MC-00364-DCN, 2018 WL 5810109 (D.S.C. Nov. 6, 2018). The case addresses a very practical question: does 28 U.S.C. § 1782

Today’s post continues our series of arbitration refreshers, to combat the Summer Slide.  It was researched and written by Anne Marie Buethe from the University of Iowa Law School.

Despite clear grounds for authority, arbitrators remain wary of hearing and granting dispositive motions.* While arbitrators posit reasons for their reluctance—the risk of vacatur being

Lots of interesting arbitration law has been made already in 2016, so here is a roundup from the first four weeks of the year. As a teaser, courts have breathed life into the effective vindication doctrine, found arbitrators cannot determine the availability of class actions, and found state laws not preempted.  More surprisingly, state courts

Today’s post is a good one for all those defendants/ respondents who are convinced that they have a slam-dunk case and want to recover their attorneys’ fees.  Because while these particular respondents were not successful, they paved a path that may lead others to collect attorneys’ fees after defeating claims in arbitration.

The case involved