SCOTUS Stays Arbitrability Dispute in Antitrust Case
April 19, 2018

The Supreme Court has stayed further proceedings in Archer & Daniels Sales v. Henry Schein Inc., a dispute about the arbitrability...

Second Circuit Puts Out Simultaneous Class Arbitration Opinions
April 17, 2018

Two different panels of the Second Circuit issued opinions about class arbitration on the same day last week.  One creates...

Mall Smoothie Does Not Bind Teenager To Mom’s Arbitration Agreement With Credit Card
April 16, 2018

A new Seventh Circuit case answers the age-old question: if a fourteen-year-old swipes her mom’s credit card to complete a smoothie purchase at the mall, is she bound to the credit card agreement? The case, A.D. v. Credit One Bank, N.A., __ F.3d __, 2018 WL 1414907 (Mar. 22. 2018), addressed whether the lead plaintiff in a putative TCPA class action was bound to an arbitration agreement.  The lead plaintiff was a teenager when the case was filed, and she alleged that the defendant bank called...

Is Online Dispute Resolution The Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution?
April 13, 2018

The tech revolution has been underway for some time now but has only recently come to the forefront of the general public’s...

Will the Commercialisation of Blockchain Technologies Change the Face of Arbitration?
April 12, 2018

Blockchain technology and its applications are filtering into mainstream industries. This technology has the potential to create...

SCOTX Agrees to Consider Whether Crop Insurance Dispute Was Properly Submitted to Arbitration
April 11, 2018

The Supreme Court of Texas has agreed to consider whether a crop insurance dispute was properly submitted...

Clause Construction: A Glimpse into Judicial and Arbitral Decision-Making
April 10, 2018

Professor David Horton, University of California, Davis, School of Law, has published “Clause Construction:...

One Smoothie, With a Side of Arbitration?
April 9, 2018

After A.D. received several calls from Credit One regarding her mother's (Ms. Serrano) credit card debt, A.D. sued by and through...

Fifth Circuit Affirms Order Denying Arbitration Where Judicial Process Was Invoked
April 9, 2018

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in an unpublished opinion that a physician waived his right to arbitration...

SCOTUS Agrees to Consider Arbitrability of Independent Contractor Agreements
April 6, 2018

The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in a case involving the arbitrability of independent...