Actor Danny Masterson, shown in 2017, is charged with raping three women who were Scientology members. A state appeals court heard arguments Tuesday on whether his accusers' harassment suit against ...

injured workers and consumers to sue instead of having their cases handled through arbitration. Ending so-called forced arbitration has been a priority for the American Association for Justice (AAJ) ...

Unfortunately, little-discussed legislation is making its way through Congress that could insert elected and appointed judges into more arenas, by forcing more employment-based litigation into the ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Shanahan v. IXL Learning, Inc. Though unpublished, ...

Fighting tooth and nail to stop depositions in the ongoing arbitration between the uberagency and its former employees over vested equity, Range and its Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher lawyers were dealt a ...

The Federal Arbitration Act establishes a federal policy in favor of arbitration agreements and provides for enforcement in federal court of many agreements to arbitrate. 9 USC §§ 1, 4. Section 16(b) ...

As mandatory arbitration clauses have proliferated in contracts between corporations and consumers in the past decade, so have charges that the arbitration system is unfair to consumers. And ...

Congress’s decades-old federal arbitration law cannot be set aside by a trial-lawyer-friendly rule in states like California, the Supreme Court said in a decision last week with big implications for ...

If anything is clear after Tuesday’s argument in Coinbase v. Bielski, it is that the justices are not going to agree on the answer. The case asks what a trial court should do if it denies a ...

More and more parties are looking into the benefits of arbitration over jury trials. It is a time and money-saving alternative to reach your final outcome faster. Here are some of the reasons that may ...

From In re Ayad, decided Friday by the Texas Supreme Court: Relator Salma Mariam Ayad married real party in interest Ayad Hashim Latif in 2008. In connection with their marriage, they signed … [an] ...