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Navigating Mass Arbitration: New Rules and Strategies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Effective May 1, 2025, the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) implemented significant revisions to AAA Employment/Workplace Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures. According to the AAA, these revisions aim to...more
We previously wrote about an Illinois federal district court order requiring Samsung to pay about $4 million in arbitration fees in connection with 35,000 individual arbitration demands filed as part of a “mass arbitration”...more
The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court just issued the latest significant ruling in the mass arbitration space, a litigation trend that has been gaining notoriety over the last year and a half....more
On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will consider an issue important to resolving disputes by arbitration. The Court will determine whether it is possible both to carve out certain disputes from arbitration...more
Many employers strongly prefer arbitration to litigating with their employees in court. Employers often believe—and the Supreme Court has agreed—that arbitration of employment disputes has many benefits, including potential...more
Takeaway: The concept of class arbitration has recently faced stiff headwinds. In Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varella, 139 S. Ct. 1407 (2019), the Supreme Court ruled that a party cannot be required to participate in a class...more
On January 8, 2019, the US Supreme Court held in Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., 586 U.S. --- (Jan. 8, 2019), that when a contract delegates to arbitrators the question whether a dispute is subject to...more
As the U.S. Supreme Court observed memorably in First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan, arbitration disputes often raise “three types of disagreement” relevant to resolution of the dispute: (1) a disagreement as to the...more
In Oliveira v. New Prime, Inc., No. 15-2364 (May 12, 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit confronted two arbitration-related questions of first impression in that Circuit. In the case, Dominic Oliveira had...more
Last month, the Ninth Circuit issued a notable opinion addressing the enforceability of arbitration agreements in Poublon v. C.H. Robinson Co., 846 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2017), mandate issued (Feb. 24, 2017). In Poublon, the...more
On February 26, 2016, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, issued its decision in Carbajal v. CWPSC, Inc., invalidating an employment arbitration agreement due to a number of provisions the Court considered...more
A federal judge in Houston recently vacated an arbitration award where the reinsurance agreement specified that the arbitration of any disputes would proceed “under the auspices of the ICC,” but the arbitration actually...more