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Commercial Law & Contracts › Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) › Products Liability

Read Commercial Law & Contracts updates, alerts, news, and analysis from leading lawyers and law firms:

News & Analysis as of May 19, 2013

Dechert LLP

Court of Appeals Compels Arbitration, Not Class Litigation

by Dechert LLP on 1/26/2012

The role of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in alleged consumer product defect cases continues to be a hotly disputed issue. Plaintiff lawyers prefer the class action device, with its ability to pressure blackmail...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Condominium Developer Cannot Enforce CC&R's After Selling All Units: Promenade at Playa Vista Homeowners Association v. Western...

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/15/2011

This month the Second District Court of Appeal concluded that the developer of a condominium complex lacked standing to enforce the declaration of covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&R's) after it had sold all the...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Product Liability Update - July 2011

by Foley Hoag LLP on 7/29/2011

In This Issue: - United States Supreme Court Holds State Law Rule Mandating Classwide Arbitration of Consumer Claims Stands as Obstacle to Purposes of Federal Arbitration Act and Is Therefore Preempted - United...more

Dechert LLP

AT&T v. Concepcion in Drug/Device Cases?

by Dechert LLP on 5/24/2011

Like everybody else we took a look at the Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, slip op., 131 S. Ct. 1740 (U.S. 2011), on the Federal Arbitration Act’s preemption of state law limiting the...more

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Appellate Update

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 5/9/2011

Since Chief Justice John Roberts’ appointment in 2005, three more new justices have joined the United States Supreme Court—Justice Samuel Alito in 2006, Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, and Justice Elena Kagan last year....more

Newsletter on Arbitration, Chops and CCC-Certification

by Fien Van Parys on 1/5/2011

Arbitration, the alternative to Chinese courts: all about the Chinese Arbitration Law and CIETAC, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Chop till you drop: all about the new invoice...more

Miller Starr Regalia

Is An Arbitration Provision In Recorded CC&Rs Ever Enforceable By The Developer?

by Miller Starr Regalia on 9/10/2010

Note To Reader: As this article goes to press, the Fourth District Court of Appeal has received the parties’ supplemental briefs, and is preparing to rehear Villa Vicenza Homeowners Association v. Nobel Court Development,...more

Duane Morris LLP

Spring 2009 Building & Bonding: The Construction Group Newsletter

by Duane Morris LLP on 4/14/2009

IN THIS ISSUE: *“The Writing Is on the Wall”: Defective Drywall Claims Prompt More Legal Action *Federal Circuit Affirms $50 Million Civil Fraud Verdict Against Korean Construction Contractor *Under New York Case Law,...more

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