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Arbitration’s Double-Edged Sword: The Rise of Mass Claims

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In recent years, numerous businesses have successfully enforced broad arbitration clauses, particularly those embedded in terms and conditions of online service agreements. We previously discussed a noteworthy example from a...more

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Mass Arbitrations: The New Landscape of Dispute Resolution and Its Challenges

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Taking a closer look at the JAMS Mass Arbitration Procedures and Guidelines - What are mass arbitrations, and why in recent years have there been so many of them? The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear in a series of...more

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Business Registration as Means for Consent to Personal Jurisdiction

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In a highly anticipated decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court closed out 2021 by striking down Pennsylvania’s consent-by-registration statutory scheme that held that an out-of-state business consented to general personal...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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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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