Jessica Port, George Reede, Jr. Although courts disagree on whether to refer to appraisal as “arbitration”, they are virtually unanimous regarding the practical differences between the two. For ...

California employers can breathe a sigh of relief. On March 17, the Fifth District Court of Appeal issued a significant, published decision ...

With the incessant, dramatic headlines over the last two years about the “to and fro” investment and trade disputes between the U.S. and China, it is easy to forget that for the rest of the world, ...

The U.S. Senate, by voice vote alone, voted Feb. 10 to pass the Ending Forced Arbitration for Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, also called the #MeToo bill. Earlier that week, a version of the ...

As transactional lawyers and commercial litigators know, contractual arbitration provisions frequently include language that permits the parties to seek injunctive relief from courts under certain ...

It is nearly common knowledge at this juncture that the supply chain disruption from Covid is unprecedented and continues, as wave after wave of new virus variants plague supply chains. The struggle ...

The justices’ first opinion day of 2019 brought the first opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for a unanimous court in Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer & White Sales Inc. The case is the most ...

Companies have spent more than a decade forcing employees and customers to resolve disputes outside the traditional court system, using secretive arbitration proceedings that typically don’t allow ...

The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday in Badgerow v. Walters offers a comprehensive vision of the proper role of the federal courts in the arbitration process. All but Justice Stephen Breyer joined ...

The recent arbitration ruling mandating that the City of Buffalo pay firefighters retroactive raises dating back to 2002 is another example of arbitration rulings that favor unions without regard to a ...