In Brennan v. Opus Bank, 796 F.3d 1125 (9th Cir. 2015), the Ninth Circuit held that express incorporation of American Arbitration Association rules in…
In Int’l Energy Ventures Mgmt., L.L.C. v. United Energy Grp., Ltd., 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 14773 (5th Cir. Aug. 21, 2015), the Fifth Circuit…
On August 4, 2015, the D.C. Circuit issued a decision in Chevron Corp. v. Republic of Ecuador, 795 F.3d 200 (D.C. Cir. 2015), affirming the district…
In Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. v Cahill, No. 14-7032 (10th Cir. May 26, 2015), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that a…
In a July 28, 2015 decision in Katz v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless, 794 F.3d 341 (2d Cir. 2015), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
The U.S. Supreme Court has once again spoken decisively in favor of class action waivers in arbitration agreements. In DirecTV, Inc. v. Imburgia, the…
In Sanchez v. Valencia Holding Company, LLC, No. S199119 (Cal. Sup. Ct. Aug. 3, 2015), the California Supreme Court clarified that, although the Federal Arbitration Act…
In its decision dated 12 January 2015 (Court of Appeal Munich, file no. 34 Sch 17/13, http://openjur.de/u/755584.html), the Court of Appeal Munich had to…
Arbitral tribunals have the power under Singapore law to rule on their own jurisdiction, consistent with the widely recognised principle of Kompetenz-Kompetenz. In a…