By Alaina Lancaster | December 30, 2019
U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller of the Eastern District of California said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups convinced her that Assembly Bill 51 could disrupt the creation of employment contracts if preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act.
By Alaina Lancaster | October 22, 2019
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that arbitrators must disclose their ownership role in an ADR service if their interest is "sufficiently substantial" and they engage in "nontrivial business dealings" with a party.
By MP McQueen | October 16, 2019
Some former in-house counsel said they believe juries are becoming more unpredictable, and that is changing companies' risk assessment.
By Ross Todd | October 2, 2019
Jessica Romero, Facebook's Director of Platform Enforcement and Litigation, said that the defendants, including a New Zealand company and three individuals, had agreed to pay about $500,000 as part of the settlement with Instagram's parent company.
By Simon Taylor | September 24, 2019
The EU's Court of Justice has ruled that search engines such as Google do not have to remove links beyond Europe's borders in so-called "right-to-be-forgotten" cases.
By Courtney Curtis-Ives | August 15, 2019
In the past year since 'Sheppard Mullin', the fallout has been palpable.
By Alaina Lancaster | July 24, 2019
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled that the right to arbitration is forfeited when a party pursues a judicial forum, affirming a district court order rejecting a motion to compel arbitration in a class action brought against Aegis Senior Communities by residents.
By Anthony E. Guzman II | July 22, 2019
Is arbitration worth it anymore? Most employers would have said “yes” without a second thought. Curiously, however, some of the nation's most prominent companies have recently been moving away from this practice and ending mandatory arbitration policies that had been in place for decades—begging the question of “why now?”
By Alaina Lancaster | July 12, 2019
As alternative dispute resolution seems to take an ever-widening bite out of the cases routed through the federal courts, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena on Monday questioned how much information is enough for parties to decide the appearance of impartiality of arbitrators during arguments in Monster Energy vs. City Beverages.
By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair | June 4, 2019
By anticipating the requirements of any applicable ethical rules attorneys can avoid public policy issues and, most importantly, ensure that the client fully appreciates the significance of agreeing to an arbitration provision at the outset of the representation.
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