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Oregon District Court Denies Motion to Compel Arbitration, Finds It Involves Procedural Questions Best Left to Arbitrators

In Sacramento Drilling Inc. v National Casualty Co., the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon addressed an amended motion to compel arbitration brought by defendant National Casualty Co. seeking to limit arbitration...more

Third Circuit Reverses Order Denying Motion to Compel Arbitration, Holds Arbitration Clause in Consumer Financing Agreement Is...

In Mancuso v. MDG USA Inc., the Third Circuit Court of Appeals considered defendant MDG’s appeal of an order denying its motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff’s lawsuit alleging violations of state and federal fair...more

Ninth Circuit Compels Arbitration of Plaintiff’s Individual Labor Claims Under PAGA, Remands Non-Individual Claims

In Johnson v. Lowe’s Home Centers LLC, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order granting defendant Lowe’s motion to compel arbitration of plaintiff Maria Johnson’s individual claims brought under...more

Eleventh Circuit Dismisses Appeal From Order Compelling Arbitration and Staying Case for Lack of Jurisdiction

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed, sua sponte, a district court order that granted defendant Trina Solar (U.S.) Inc.’s motion to compel arbitration and stay the underlying case. The court did not address the...more

Ninth Circuit Reverses Order Denying Motion to Compel Arbitration, Concluding “Delegation Provision” Is Enforceable

Noting the court was deciding, as a matter of first impression, “what a party must do to specifically challenge a delegation provision and what a court may consider when evaluating this challenge,” the Ninth Circuit Court of...more

Third Circuit Affirms Order Denying Motion to Compel Arbitration After AAA Declines to Administer Arbitration

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court decision denying defendant MicroBilt Corp.’s motion to compel arbitration, finding the plaintiff had fully complied with all provisions of her arbitration...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court Order Granting Motion to Compel Arbitration of Discrimination Claims

In Jackson v. Applied Materials Corp., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order granting a motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff’s discrimination and retaliation claims, finding the...more

SDNY Confirms Arbitration Award Under New York Convention

In Exclusive Trim Inc. v. Kastamonu Romania, S.A., the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a petition to confirm and enforce a foreign arbitration award issued in an arbitration held before the...more

SDNY Grants Motion to Compel Arbitration of Employee’s Discrimination and Retaliation Claims

In Marino v. CVS Health, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found defendant CVS Health’s “arbitration of workplace legal disputes policy” and related arbitration agreement compelled arbitration of...more

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Order Compelling Arbitration of Discrimination Claims, Rejects Argument That Arbitration Agreement Was...

In Payne v. Savannah College of Art and Design Inc., the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order denying a motion to compel arbitration of plaintiff Isaac Payne’s discrimination-based claims. The...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court Order Denying Motion to Compel Arbitration of Discrimination Claims

In Perez v. Discover Bank, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order denying a motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff’s discrimination claims, finding that the mandatory arbitration provisions...more

Sixth Circuit Holds Validity of Employee’s Electronic Signature Creates Issue of Fact, Reverses Order Compelling Arbitration

In Bazemore v. Papa John’s U.S.A. Inc., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals considered the plaintiff’s appeal of an order granting the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint brought...more

Fifth Circuit Affirms Order Dismissing Tesla Lawsuit in Favor of Arbitration

In Lynch v. Tesla Inc., the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order adopting a magistrate judge’s recommendation that the plaintiffs’ lawsuit should be dismissed in favor of arbitration. The plaintiffs...more

South Carolina Supreme Court Finds Contract Did Not Involve Interstate Commerce and Reverses Order Compelling Arbitration

In Hicks Unlimited, Inc. v. UniFirst Corporation, the Supreme Court of South Carolina agreed with a trial court ruling that the underlying contract between the parties, which included mandatory arbitration “to be governed by...more

Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Orders Denying Motions to Compel Arbitration Under Employment Agreement

In Women’s Care Specialists, P.C. v. Dr. Margot G. Potter and Dr. Karla Kennedy v. Dr. Margot G. Potter, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed opinions of the trial court that had denied motions to compel arbitration and held...more

Third Circuit Joins Other Circuits, Holds Uber Drivers Are Not Exempt From FAA

In Singh v. Uber Technologies Inc., the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in a precedential opinion, affirmed district court orders granting defendant Uber Technologies Inc.’s motion to compel arbitration, concluding that the...more

Second Circuit Affirms Order Denying Application to Adjourn Enforcement of Arbitration Award Pending Outcome of Parallel Foreign...

In Iraq Telecom Ltd. v. IBL Bank S.A.L., defendant IBL appealed an order from the district court that denied its application to stay the enforcement of a $3 million arbitration award rendered in favor of plaintiff Iraq...more

New Jersey District Court Vacates Arbitrator’s Final Award Finding Bias and Deprivation of Fair Hearing

Citing the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), and recognizing the specific standards set forth in the FAA for vacating an arbitrator’s decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated an arbitrator’s final...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms District Order Refusing to Compel Arbitration

In City of Laurel, Mississippi v. Cintas Corp. No. 2, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed the issue whether a valid arbitration agreement existed between the plaintiff City of Laurel, Mississippi, and defendant...more

Wyoming Supreme Court Affirms Finding That Arbitrator’s Determinations Did Not Exceed Authority And Were Not Manifest Errors of...

Defendant Fork Road, LLC, is the owner of a floor of an office building, which it purchased several years earlier. Plaintiff Mountain Business Center, LLC (MBC) was a tenant in the building at the time of Fork Road’s...more

First Circuit Affirms Order Compelling Arbitration and Rejecting Claim By Postmates Couriers of Exemption From the FAA

In Damon Immediato, et al., v. Postmates, Inc., the First Circuit addressed the issue of whether couriers who deliver goods from local restaurants and grocery stores are “transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce...more

Second Circuit Rejects Application of the Functus Officio Doctrine and Affirms District Court’s Order Denying Petition To Vacate...

In Smarter Tools, Inc., v. Chongqing Seni Import & Export Trade Co., Ltd., et al., the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s order denying Smarter Tools, Inc.’s (STI) petition to vacate an arbitration award and...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court’s Order Denying Online Cryptocurrency Exchange’s Motion to Compel Arbitration of Users’...

In David Suski v. Coinbase, Inc., et al., the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court order denying defendant Coinbase, Inc.’s (Coinbase) motion to compel arbitration, concluding that issues surrounding a forum selection...more

Third Circuit Reverses Judgment Enjoining Arbitration Proceeding, Remands to District Court for Further Consideration

In Field Intelligence Inc. v. Xylem Dewatering Solutions Inc., the Third Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the district court’s determination that the court, not the arbitrator, was required to determine whether the...more

District Court Orders Limited Trial to Address Party’s Authority to Sign Arbitration Agreement

Relying on the Federal Arbitration Act and recognizing that “this case presents one of the rare instances in which a defendant opposing arbitration survives the initial stage of an FAA proceeding,” the U.S. District Court for...more

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