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The Federal Arbitration Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1925 that governs arbitration in contracts implicating interstate commerce. The Act applies in both federal and state courts. 
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Litigation Byte (June 2025 Edition)

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SCOTUS Says: Hobbs Act Does Not Bind a District Court to the FCC’s Interpretation of a Statute - On May 1, 2025, the American Arbitration Association’s new amendments to the Consumer Arbitration Rules officially went into...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Class Action Trends Report Winter 2021

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Last year presented many challenges, and 2021 offers a fresh start. In this issue of the Class Actions Trends Report we review the most significant developments of 2020 and take a look forward to what a new year and a new...more

King & Spalding

Two Circuit Courts Decline to Compel Arbitration in TCPA Class Actions, Holding That the Federal Policy to Broadly Construe...

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Two recent opinions by the Ninth and Second Circuits illustrate that challenges to the enforceability of arbitration agreements have not been dampened by a string of pro-arbitration Supreme Court rulings in the last decade. ...more

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Attacking An Inexplicable Arbitration Award: “Manifest Disregard of the Law” Or Something Else?

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What to do with an arbitration award that appears to be fatally internally inconsistent and provides no explanation or reconciliation of the inconsistency? For lack of something better to say, perhaps tee up the elusive...more

Alston & Bird

Class Action & MDL Roundup: Spring 2019

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Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! Our spring edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2019. There was a veritable traffic jam in the courts for the automotive industry. Manufacturers saw...more

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Sixth Circuit Denies Arbitration in TCPA Class Action for Calls to Past Customers

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Phone calls made by a lawn care company after the termination of a customer's contract were beyond the scope of the parties' agreement to arbitrate any claim "arising from or relating to" their contract, the U.S. Court of...more

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