In Norcia, Plaintiff filed a putative class action against Samsung, alleging that it made misrepresentations as to the performance of the Galaxy S4 phone.…
Canada has long been an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction and was the first state to adopt the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (“Model…
On January 31, 2017, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals authorized a court-appointed Receiver to avoid arbitration clauses contained in employment and employment-related agreements.[1] …
In Sgouros v. TransUnion Corp., No. 15-1371 (7th Cir. Mar. 25, 2016), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals declined to enforce a website’s arbitration clause because…
In Western Security Bank v. Winzenreid, No. 15-35617 (9th Cir. Mar. 14, 2016), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that it lacked jurisdiction…
In Al Rushaid v. National Oilwell Varco, Inc., No. 15-20260 (5th Cir. Feb. 17, 2016), the Fifth Circuit refused appellate review of an order…
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…
In Ogden Power Development – Cayman, Inc. v. PMR Limited Co., No. 14-CV-8169 (S.D.N.Y. May 21, 2015), a federal court in New York dismissed a…
Torres v. Simpatico, No. 14-1567 (8th Cir. Mar. 25, 2015), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s order compelling individual arbitration…