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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Major Changes to AAA Employment Arbitration Rules: What Employers and Litigants Need to Know

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

WilmerHale

US Supreme Court Rejects “Wholly Groundless” Exception to Rule That Arbitrators Must Decide Arbitrability When Contract Delegates...

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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

A&O Shearman

Supreme Court Rules That Agreements Delegating Arbitrability Determinations To Arbitrators Must Be Enforced As Written And Are Not...

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On January 8, 2019, in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the United States Supreme Court held that courts must enforce as written arbitration agreements that require the “gateway” question of arbitrability to...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Supreme Court strengthens enforceability of arbitration provisions

In his first Supreme Court opinion, Justice Kavanaugh, writing for a unanimous court, held that when a contract delegates to arbitrators gateway questions regarding arbitrability of disputes, courts may not override that...more

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Supreme Court Concludes “Wholly Groundless” Exception Is Inconsistent With Federal Arbitration Act

On January 8, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States decided whether courts may disregard contractual language calling for an arbitrator to decide questions of arbitrability if the argument that the arbitration...more

Fisher Phillips

Grounded! Supreme Court Rejects Lower Courts’ Ability To Axe Arbitration Agreements

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In a unanimous opinion issued yesterday, the United States Supreme Court continued its expansive reading of the Federal Arbitration Act and arbitration provisions, rebuffing an effort by some to erect an additional hurdle...more

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Seventh Circuit Joins Sister Circuits in Holding That Courts, not Arbitrators, Should Decide the Availability of Class Arbitration

In a matter of first impression before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving an issue left open by the Supreme Court of the United States, a Seventh Circuit panel issued an opinion on a key threshold question of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Supreme Court’s Business Docket for the October 2018 Term

On September 26, 2018, Skadden hosted a webinar titled “US Supreme Court October 2018 Term.” Topics included some of the key business-related cases on the Supreme Court’s docket, including cases addressing antitrust, foreign...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Eleventh Circuit Creates Circuit Split as to Who Decides Whether an Arbitration Agreement Permits Class Arbitration

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Challenging Arbitrators for Alleged 'Conflict of Interest' in US-Based International Arbitrations

A number of significant international arbitrations, particularly involving claims by investors against sovereign states, are venued in Washington, D.C. A September 30, 2016, decision by the U.S. District Court for the...more

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