Larry J. Pittman, Professor of Law and Leonard B. Melvin Lecturer in Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, has published “Arbitration and Federal Reform: Recalibrating the Separation of Powers Between Congress and the Court,” Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, 2023.

A former Twitter employee has filed a motion to compel arbitration on behalf of himself and other former employees of the company after Twitter reversed course and refused to proceed with arbitration over the associated fees.

Stephan Wilske, FCIArb, Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Leibniz Universität Hannover, and the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer and Owner at Gleiss Lutz, and Annemie Heubach, Former Intern at Gleiss Lutz and LPC student at The University of Law, have recently published a timely article titled, “The Global Goals of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)—Are Arbitral Institutions Doing Their Part (at Least, with Respect to the Environmental Pillar)?” Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-30, May 2023.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed an order vacating an arbitration award after equitably tolling the statutory deadline to challenge it enumerated in 9 U.S.C. § 12 due to fraud.

Lydia R. Nussbaum, Associate Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, has published “Trial and Error: Legislating ADR for Medical Malpractice Reform,” Maryland Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, 2017.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an arm of the US Department of Health and Human Services, released an announcement on June 5th withdrawing its 2016 Rule prohibiting pre-dispute arbitration agreements for long-term care nursing home contracts.