J.J. Prescott, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, has published “Using ODR Platforms to Level the Playing Field: Improving Pro Se Litigation through ODR Design,” Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice (David Freeman Engstrom, ed.) (Cambridge University Press 2023); U. of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper 23-024.

Ancestry.com DNA LLC (“Ancestry”) has reportedly asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to order a putative class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of a group of minors who Alleged the company violated the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”) to arbitration. 

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States held a district court must stay its proceedings pending resolution of an interlocutory appeal related to the question of arbitrability of a dispute that was filed pursuant to 9 U. S. C. §16(a). 

Professor Amy J. Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute Responsible Data Science CoP at the Moritz College of Law, has published “Resolving NFT and Smart Contract Disputes,” in The Cambridge Handbook on the Law and Policy of NFTs (Cambridge 2023); Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 717. 

A Mississippi federal judge has blocked a Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) regulation that bars federally funded nursing homes from utilizing pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements.

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a regulation that bans federally funded long-term care facilities such as nursing homes from using pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements.