Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has affirmed a lower court’s decision stating an agreement to arbitrate existed between two cellular network technology companies.

Paul M. Lurie, Partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, and Sharon Press, Professor at Hamline University School of Law, have published Protecting Confidential Information in Commercial Mediations, Dispute Resolution Magazine, p. 40 (Winter 2014 Forthcoming).

A federal appellate court in New York has reportedly ordered a dispute between United Healthcare and two county medical societies to mediation. The lawsuit arose in October 2013 after the insurer removed thousands of doctors in Connecticut and other states from its Medicare Advantage network.

The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts a state law that states “a compulsory-arbitration provision in a contract may be unconscionable, and therefore unenforceable, if it applies only, or primarily, to claims that just one party to the contract is likely to bring.”