S.I. Strong, Associate Professor of Law and Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri recently authored an article discussing the changing role of discovery requests pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1782 in international arbitration disputes.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a federal court may enjoin arbitrable state-law claims in an insurance dispute. Next, the Appeals Court dismissed Appellants’ argument that Aflac’s request for arbitration and motion to enjoin their state-law claims was barred by the Anti-Injunction Act.

In a recently published paper, Professor Joseph Slater (University of Toledo College of Law) examines the long history of using “interest arbitration” in public-sector labor relations disputes. The paper gives a historical overview of the development of interest arbitration, discussing how and why it developed as it did.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced plans to establish an arbitration pilot program for handling disaster assistance disputes related to Hurricane Sandy.