I’m adding something new to our Blog experience, the ArbitrationNation Bookworm.  Basically, once or twice a month, I’ll provide a brief overview of an article or book that readers of the Blog might find interesting.  I’m also going to add a sidebar that includes other stuff that we’re reading related to arbitration.

For the inaugural

Despite how often I talk about whack-a-mole and the tug-of-war between the state courts and SCOTUS on arbitration, the truth is that the majority of state supreme courts follow SCOTUS’s arbitration precedent (whether holding their noses or not, we don’t know). Recent weeks have given us multiple of those pro-arbitration state court decisions to highlight

The Supreme Court of Louisiana refuses to send customers who were injured while playing at Sky Zone to arbitration, finding that the arbitration clause “is adhesionary and therefore unenforceable”.  Duhon v. Activelaf, LLC, __ So. 3d __, 2016 WL 6123820 (La. Oct. 19 2016); Alicea v. Activelaf, LLC, __ So. 3d __, 2016