Not exact matches
My Georgetown colleague Rebecca Tushnet has a great post about a
recent Missouri Supreme Court
ruling, Brewer v. Missouri Title Loans, holding that an
arbitration agreement in an auto title loan was unconscionable.
Following on from the Sanum [3] and Philip Morris [4] cases and together with the launch of the SIAC Investment
Arbitration Rules and the
recent establishment of regional offices for both the PCA and ICC in Singapore, it suggests that investment
arbitration is on the rise.
According to a
recent report in the New York Times, an agency within the federal Health and Human Services Department issued a
rule that bars any nursing home that receives federal funding from requiring that its residents resolve disputes in
arbitration as an alternative to a lawsuit in a court.
Mr. White's article, «Favorable
Ruling For Product Manufacturers,» discusses developments relevant to the business community, including a
recent product liability decision involving the malfunction doctrine and other decisions pertaining to
arbitration and workplace injuries.
Moot arbitrators and other invited speakers shared their experience and insight into the most
recent developments in investment
arbitration and, in particular, in the
arbitrations conducted under the SCC
Rules.
However, given the
recent string of pro-
arbitration rulings from the Indian judiciary, there is good reason to believe that these changes to the Indian
arbitration regime will be implemented by the Indian judiciary in a positive manner.
In this issue: New CIETAC
Rules: 1 January 2015; Enforcing an
arbitration award against a non-party: a
recent English case; Singapore Court of Appeal continues to support non-interventionist approach to
arbitration; The New York Convention 1958 half a century on: is it still effective?
We will have to see how the newly constituted SCOTUS
rules, but their very
recent decision in DIRECTV, Inc. v. Imburgia upheld binding
arbitration despite explicit statutory consumer protection legislation in California to the contrary.
A
recent Court of Appeal
ruling underlines the limits of the protection afforded by sovereign state immunity in
arbitration proceedings.
Between financial corporation scandals, like the cyber attacks on Equifax, and the
recent repeal of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
arbitration rule, consumers are having trouble trusting financial institutions with their personal information.