Assuming Judge Gorsuch's confirmation, the Court will add a Justice with extensive commercial litigation experience, a particular expertise in antitrust and securities law, and a track record on the bench that demonstrates a...more
2/6/2017
/ Administrative Authority ,
Administrative Review Board ,
Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
AT&T Mobility v Concepcion ,
Chevron Deference ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Collective Actions ,
Comcast v. Behrend ,
Confirmation Proceedings ,
Consumer Bankruptcy ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Dukes v Wal-Mart ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Judicial Appointments ,
Microsoft v Baker ,
Motion to Compel ,
Neil Gorsuch ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Nominations ,
Popular ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities Litigation ,
Teamsters ,
Trump Administration
On Monday, a federal district court in the Southern District of New York granted a motion to compel arbitration in Bethune v. Lending Club Corporation, et al., a closely watched putative class action raising important issues...more
2/1/2017
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinTech ,
Interest Rates ,
Lenders ,
Lending Club ,
Loans ,
Madden v Midland Funding ,
Motion to Compel ,
Online Marketplace Lending ,
Preemption ,
Putative Class Actions ,
RICO ,
Usury
On May 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a wage-and-hour class arbitration clause violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), setting up a circuit split with the Fifth Circuit, and opening...more
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) yesterday issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, among other things, would prohibit the use of class action waivers in arbitration clauses in connection with a broad...more