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A $100 million arbitration award against NutraSweet was reinstated by a New York state appellate court due to the "emphatic federal policy in favor of arbitral dispute resolution embodied in the FAA,

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia certified a class of all individuals and entities who paid fees to obtain court records though the PACER system.

The Sixth Circuit's split decision last month finding Article 3 standing in a data breach case is the first of its kind post-Spokeo. See Galaria v. Nationwide Nos. 15-3386/3387.

In In re FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc. Employment Practices Litig., No. 3:05-CV-595 RLM, 2017 WL 632119 (N.D. Ind. Feb. 14, 2017), only one of a total of seven class representatives signed off on accepting a proposed class settlement with the defendant, FedEx.

The Eleventh Circuit has determined that a confidentiality provision in an arbitration clause was substantively unconscionable.

Former franchisees filed a petition to vacate an arbitration award entered in favor of their former franchisor which enforced a 2-year non-compete provision in the parties' franchise agreement...

In a dispute previously reported on this blog, the Southern District of California overruled a defendant's objections to subpoenas served on a former expert witness in defendant's unrelated divorce case and to a bank for account information for a non-party corporate entity.

A federal district court in Washington, D.C. recently confirmed a $1.2 billion arbitral award in favor of Crystallex International Corp. against Venezuela...

A district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has issued an order attempting to resolve the apparent tension ...

The Ninth Circuit refused last month to disturb a district court order denying a defendant's motion to compel arbitration against a sailor in a maritime action pursuant to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards ("Convention Act") where the defendant company was not a signatory or a party to an employment agreement with an arbitration clause.

After a dispute arose and the parties undertook arbitration, the arbitrator entered an award against New World Solutions and its principals.

The Fifth Circuit has affirmed an order compelling arbitration, despite the fact that the parties seeking to compel arbitration were not signatories to the relevant arbitration agreement.

A group of plaintiffs hoped to hit the reset button on the Ninth Circuit's denial of their Rule 23(f) petition to appeal from an order striking class allegations in their case against Microsoft.

Ameriprise sought vacatur of the award under grounds set forth in the FAA, namely fraud, evident partiality, arbitrator misconduct, and exceeding of powers.

Under the specific facts of plaintiffs' request, the Ninth Circuit held that CAFA removal jurisdiction did not exist.

GC Services Limited Partnership ("GC Services"), a debt collector hired by a bank to collect an allegedly unpaid balance on a credit card, advised plaintiff Francina Smith that it would commence a collection proceeding ...

A former employee of Waterstone Mortgage Corporation filed a class action against Waterstone in Wisconsin federal court in 2011 alleging wage violations and breach of contract.