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Ninth Circuit Provides Long-Awaited Guidance on Mass Arbitration Provisions

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In the long-awaited newest chapter of case law discussing the validity and enforceability of arbitration clauses and class action waivers, the Ninth Circuit on October 28, 2024, dealt a setback, though not a fatal blow, to...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Ninth Circuit Sets Low Bar for Challenges to Delegation Clauses in Arbitration Agreements and Allows Expansive Review by District...

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When parties are battling over whether a court should compel a putative class action to arbitration, the outcome often turns on who decides the “gateway” arbitrability issues of whether a valid arbitration agreement exists...more

Morgan Lewis

Third Circuit Rules on ‘Mind-Bending’ Arbitration Question

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The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently issued a precedential decision on what it called “the mind-bending issue of arbitration about arbitration.” Relying on an arbitration agreement between the plaintiff and...more

Burr & Forman

Now Say That Five Times Fast! Eleventh Circuit Upholds Arbitration Clause Delegating Adjudication of Threshold Questions of...

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On May 26, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion reversing the Southern District of Florida’s denial of the appellant’s motion to compel arbitration, therein finding that the district court erred in failing to apply...more

Carlton Fields

Eleventh Circuit Doesn’t Waffle on Enforceability of Arbitration Agreement

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal found that an arbitration agreement entered into by a putative class representative and his eventual employer was enforceable even though the agreement was signed after the plaintiff filed...more

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