JAMS, the world’s largest private alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider, is pleased to announce that Karl Bayer has joined its panel of neutrals, bringing with him over 30 years of dispute resolution experience spanning a wide range of practice areas.

Linda S. Mullenix, Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law, has written “Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements: The Twenty-First Century Arbitration Battleground and Implications for the EU Countries,” Forthcoming, 38 Emory Int’l L. Rev. (Spring 2024). 

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 Ohio State University’s Michael E. Moritz College of Law, has published a draft book chapter titled “Picking the Proper Technological Tool for Problem-Solving in Arbitration,” ArbMetaBlock (Full title tba), (Radboud University Press, Maud Piers & Sean McCarthy editors, forthcoming 2024); Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 808. 

Today marks the start of the United States Supreme Court’s new term. During the term, the nation’s highest court will resolve a circuit court split regarding whether Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption for “any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce,” applies to transportation workers who perform work for companies that operate outside of the transportation industry. 

A state appeals court has ruled a nursing home’s arbitration is void in part because its language is “dense and meandering,” which prevented a meeting of the minds. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued a final rule allowing the use of pre-dispute, binding arbitration agreements by nursing homes across the United States.