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Ninth Circuit Rejects Plaintiff’s Attempt to Contest Consolidation of Arbitration Claims

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On February 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of a petition to compel individual arbitration against Starz Entertainment, LLC. The court held that the plaintiff, who...more

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Bellwether Mediations As An Alternative To Bellwether Trials

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Conceptually, the goal of bellwether mediations is the same as that of its counterpart (a trial): to develop an objective way to value a disparate set of cases to facilitate settlement. As with bellwether trials, the issues...more

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Chapter 15: Cooperation and consistency – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

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Why does this topic matter to organisations? Under the Directive, organisations were obliged to deal with a separate DPA for each Member State whose laws apply to them. This meant that businesses faced a range of...more

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An Emerging Structure of ADR in Mass Torts and MDLs

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The official statistics provided by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in recent years count Products Liability as nearly one quarter of all pending multidistrict litigations (MDLs), making it the largest category...more

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