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By Mark Norych, Executive Vice-President/General Counsel, Board Director For the vast majority of the people in the United States, disagreements or disputes wind up in lawsuits and Courts which everyone realizes takes a lot of time and money. Although arbitration as a way to settle disputes has existed for centuries, it is now finally coming…
Before we know it, a new hockey season will be upon us. In that spirit, I report on a Federal Arbitration Act “preemption hat trick” that was completed August 12th by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts’ decision in McInnes v. LPL Financial, Inc., SJC-11356. For those not familiar with hockey, a “hat trick” occurs…
We have announced a new partnership with BoaterRated LLC this week, which brings valuable and convenient dispute resolution to the boating community. The service allows BoaterRated Partner Businesses™ to use ARS at reduced fees for all parties to a dispute. BoaterRated.com is the leading independent marine business review website, where boaters rate and review boating businesses. As…
Judge Joyner’s August 1st ruling in Goldman Sachs v. Athena Venture Partners, LLC, no. 13-MC-130 (E.D. Pa.), underscored some fairly basic arbitration law: the Federal Arbitration Act requires that arbitrators fully disclose to the parties anything that might cause a reasonable person to question the arbitrator’s impartiality. In Goldman an arbitrator – who was an…
Another generally anti-arbitration court — this one in Massachusetts — seems to have gotten the U.S. Supreme Court’s memo that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws impinging on arbitration. See this excellent analysis of the latest reversal of Feeney v Dell by Deborah LaFetra in the PLF Liberty Blog.