Houston COA Affirms Arbitration Award in Roofing Dispute By Beth Graham on February 7, 2019 Posted in Arbitration In urse v. DeJesus, a roofing professional entered into a contract with a Texas ...
Fifth Circuit Reverses Arbitrator’s Ruling in Southwest Airlines Labor Dispute By Beth Graham on February 5, 2019 Posted in Arbitration, Fifth Circuit In the court’s written opinion, the Fifth Circuit stated judicial review of an arbitrator’s ...
Petition for Review Filed Over $460K Legal Malpractice Arbitration Award By Beth Graham on January 23, 2019 Posted in Arbitration, Texas Supreme Court the Supreme Court of Texas was asked to consider whether the Beaumont Court ...
SCOTUS Holds FAA’s Transportation Worker Exception Applies to Independent Contractors By Beth Graham on January 18, 2019 Posted in Arbitration In New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira, a truck driver, Oliveira, signed an Independent ...
New U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Clarify the Courts’ Authority to Compel Arbitration By Thomas J. McGoey II and Philip Dore on January 17, 2019 Posted in Arbitration Commercial and employment agreements often include provisions requiring ...
US Supreme Court Rejects A “Wholly Groundless” Exception To Clauses Delegating Arbitrability By Michael Leggieri on January 15, 2019 Posted in Arbitration, Supreme Court Specifically, the Court confirmed that when an arbitration agreement delegates to an ...
Beaumont COA Overturns Jefferson County Order Denying Arbitration in Energy Dispute By Beth Graham on January 9, 2019 Posted in Arbitration, Arbitration Clause In Oxbow Calcining LLC v. Port Arthur Steam Energy, a company that manufactures ...
Standard for arbitration waiver By David Coale on December 11, 2018 Posted in Arbitration The Fifth Circuit found a waiver of the right to arbitrate in Forby v. One Technologies ...
Fifth Circuit Vacates Northern District of Texas Order Compelling Arbitration By Beth Graham on December 10, 2018 Posted in Arbitration, Class Action, Fifth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a ...
Jay-Z Successfully Convinces NY Court to Issue TRO in AAA Arbitration Based on Lack of Arbitrator Diversity By Beth Graham on December 4, 2018 Posted in Arbitration In the case, Jay-Z and Iconix Brand Group entered into a $200 million merchandising ...
You Had Me At “Class Action Waiver” By Michael E. Brewer, Michael Leggieri and Robin Samuel on November 29, 2018 Posted in Arbitration The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis was a clear win for ...
S.D. Texas Orders Independent Contractor’s Lawsuit Filed Against Nonsignatory to Arbitration By Beth Graham on November 16, 2018 Posted in Arbitration, Fifth Circuit In Randle v. Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, a Texas man signed a series ...
Dallas COA Rules No Right to Interlocutory Judicial Review of Arbitration Panel’s Order By Beth Graham on November 15, 2018 Posted in Arbitration, Mediation Texas’s Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has issued an opinion stating neither the Texas ...
El Paso COA Rules on Pre-Arbitration Discovery in Mandamus Relief Case By Beth Graham on November 13, 2018 Posted in Arbitration, Arbitration Agreement In the case, In Re Dish Network, LLC, a Texas woman, Delgado, worked as a ...
From The Seventh Circuit: Class Arbitration Determination Is For Courts By Douglas A. Darch and Melissa Logan on November 5, 2018 Posted in Arbitration The decision in Herrington v. Waterstone Mortgage Corp. is instructive on many ...
N.D. Texas Dismisses FLSA Case in Favor of Arbitration By Beth Graham on October 29, 2018 Posted in Arbitration, Arbitration Agreement In Gay v. Manchester Mgmt., LLC, a woman signed an agreement to arbitrate all ...
Not an illusion By David Coale on October 25, 2018 Posted in Arbitration The appellant in CBRE, Inc. v. Turner sought to avoid arbitration based on a long ...
Fifth Circuit Dismisses Case Against Texas Energy Company Due to Man’s Refusal to Arbitrate By Beth Graham on October 11, 2018 Posted in Arbitration, Class Action, Fifth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld a Texas federal ...
El Paso COA Affirms Trial Court’s Order Denying Arbitration By Beth Graham on October 1, 2018 Posted in Arbitration In Encore Enterprises, Inc., et al. v. Borderplex Realty Trust, et al., two real estate ...
ND Texas in Dallas Confirms $141 Million Arbitration Award in Software Dispute By Beth Graham on September 28, 2018 Posted in Arbitration In Kemper Corp. Svcs., Inc. v. Computer Sciences Corp. and DXC Tech. Co., an insurance ...
Sixth Circuit Upholds Mandatory Arbitration Of FLSA Claims By Michael Leggieri and Melissa Logan on September 17, 2018 Posted in Arbitration In Gaffers v. Kelly Services, a former employee brought suit against his employer for ...
Circuit Split Widens Over Securities Broker-Dealer Attempts to Avoid FINRA Arbitration By Beth Graham on September 11, 2018 Posted in Arbitration In Reading Health System v. Bear Stearns & Co., a Pennsylvania-based-not-for ...
Fifth Circuit Affirms Vacatur After Arbitrator Exceeded His Authority By Beth Graham on September 10, 2018 Posted in Arbitration, Fifth Circuit In Hebbronville Lone Star Rentals, LLC v. Sunbelt Rentals Industrial Services, LLC an equipment ...
Houston COA Holds Administrator Not Bound by Will’s Arbitration Provision By Beth Graham on September 7, 2018 Posted in Arbitration A Houston appeals court has ruled that the administrator of an estate is not bound by ...
