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Litigation Byte (June 2025 Edition)

McGlinchey Stafford on 7/7/2025

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

New study targets arbitration opt-outs in online contracting, but misses the point

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/21/2023

Professor Jeff Sovern, who recently joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law faculty, has recently blogged about a forthcoming Study by academicians at other institutions that will be published in...more

Financial Services Report – Winter 2018

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 12/12/2018

In between holiday shopping and merriment, we here at the Financial Services Report are pondering what’s in a name. Not much, said Shakespeare. Isaac Asimov begged to differ in a mystery story about who killed one of the...more

Web Exclusive - High Court’s Arbitration Ruling Provides Sigh Of Relief For Healthcare Employers

Fisher Phillips on 8/10/2018

A few months ago, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements do not violate the National Labor Relations Act and are, in fact, fully enforceable. The decision...more

Epic Win: Supreme Court Saves Employment Arbitration As We Know It

Fisher Phillips on 5/21/2018

To the relief of employers across the country, the Supreme Court today ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements do not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and are,...more

California Moves Toward Ban On Mandatory Arbitration of Labor Claims

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/8/2015

On August 31, the California Legislature passed AB 465, aiming to “ensure that a contract to waive any of the rights, penalties, remedies, forums, or procedures under the Labor Code”—such as an arbitration agreement—is “a...more

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