The trial court, five or six years after the arbitration decision, reached the identical conclusion as the arbitration and the Fifth Circuit agreed. Papalote Creek II, L.L.C., v. LCRA , 2021 U.S ...

Opinion: Zimmerman Reed's Caleb Marker and Ryan Ellersick say recent cases in California show continued reliance on a ...

By Steven B. Katz In Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd, 470 U.S. 213, 221 (1985), the U.S. Supreme Court held that courts must “rigorously enforce” arbitration agreements. In Stolt-Nielsen S.A ...

Overall, the Court’s opinion portrays class arbitration as an ill-conceived procedure that combines the cost, delay and “procedural morass” of class litigation with the unreliability of arbitration to ...

Varela, No. 17-988, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 2943 (April 24, 2019), the court ruled that class-wide arbitration may not be compelled where the arbitration agreement is “ambiguous” as to whether class ...

Business Consumer Alliance reports moving companies must implement arbitration programs to resolve disputes fairly, meet ...

In Skuse v.Pfizer, the State Supreme Court ruled 5-1 Aug. 18 that a former Pfizer employee's discrimination claims must be resolved through arbitration. In upholding the trial court, the majority ...

The UK Supreme Court in a recent decision has clarified the approach to be taken in determining when a matter ought to be referred to arbitration under an arbitration clause, and when such a ...

The Supreme Court on Monday decided a case that limits – in a small way – the use of forced arbitration by employers. The high court ruled that Southwest Airlines could not force an airline ...

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. July 8, 2022 - With four Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) cases on the Supreme Court's 2021-2022 docket — each involving a ...