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What Practitioners Need to Know About Arbitration Class Waivers

Both President Donald Trump and #MeToo swung for the fences on the same issue: employee arbitration. Here's the box score. Arbitration class waivers got the green light, but there's a new move to push ...
Reuters

Beset by arbitration demands, Postmates resorts to class action to settle couriers’ claims

(Reuters) - Employers hate class actions. That’s why the business lobby has spent the past decade convincing the U.S. Supreme Court that employers have a nearly inviolable right to impose mandatory ...
JD Supra

Class arbitration – can it even work?

Courts continue to devote a lot of attention on the area of class arbitration. The U.S. Supreme Court has a case on its docket, the Eleventh Circuit just decided an issue of first impression, and ...
Law

Employment Arbitration Agreements Can Contain Class Action Waivers

L-r: April Boyer, Andrew C. Glass, and Roger L. Smerage, of K&L Gates. Many employers prefer to resolve disputes with employees through arbitration as opposed to more costly litigation in court. This ...
JD Supra

Class arbitration is – almost – dead

James Bogan III, C. Allen Garrett Jr. In Lamps Plus, Frank Varela, a Lamps Plus employee in California, brought a putative class action alleging claims based on a data breach. According to Mr. Varela, ...
The National Law Review

Class Arbitration - Who Decides?

We collaborate with the world's leading lawyers to deliver news tailored for you. Sign Up for any (or all) of our 25+ Newsletters. Some states have laws and ethical rules regarding solicitation and ...
HR Dive

SCOTUS: No class arbitration without clear-cut agreements

The decision is a "big win" for employers, Robert Friedman, managing shareholder in the Dallas, Texas, office of Littler Mendelson, told HR Dive in an emailed statement. Friedman said the Supreme ...
The National Law Review

Concerned About Class Arbitration? Check Your Agreement

We collaborate with the world's leading lawyers to deliver news tailored for you. Sign Up for any (or all) of our 25+ Newsletters. Some states have laws and ethical rules regarding solicitation and ...
SCOTUSblog

Delay of “class” arbitration denied

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg refused on Thursday to put on hold a federal appeals court ruling that permits ...
Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court gives businesses more power to require individual arbitration

An ideologically divided Supreme Court has given businesses more power to channel disputes into individual arbitration proceedings, siding with a lighting retailer trying to prevent its employees from ...
The Financial Express

Explainer: Why SC saw a class action suit as a fit case for private arbitration

The Supreme Court's referral of the Jindal Poly Films shareholder dispute to arbitration has sparked debate on minority shareholder rights, arbitration's role, and corporate governance in India.