The focus today is recent state appellate court decisions on arbitration. Because there are an awful lot of them, I am going to divide them roughly into those that are pro arbitration, and those that are hostile to arbitration. This post focuses on the three relatively hostile cases (with the friendly cases coming in a
A federal judge in Minnesota today vacated the arbitration award that confirmed the NFL’s discipline of Adrian Peterson. You can read the decision here. The judge found two separate bases for vacating the award: 1) the award failed to “draw its essence” from the parties’ Collective Bargaining Agreement; and 2) the arbitrator exceeded his
This blog might as well have been called Arbitration Elation on November 26! Not only was there a new arbitration decision from the Supreme Court, which only happens a couple times a year, but editors of the ABA Journal announced that they selected Arbitration Nation as one of the 100 best blogs in the