Many people confuse arbitration with mediation. They are not the same thing and they are not interchangeable. On this blog, I rarely delve into the world of politics and international relations. However, I will given a comment made by President Trump on his trip to...
Arbitration is where a private judge (or a panel of private judges) called an arbitrator makes a usually binding decision for the parties. Micronomics performed a study comparing AAA Arbitration to Litigation in federal court and here is what they found: Arbitrations...
Midland Funding LLC v. Bordeaux was decided by the Appellate Division in a published decision today. The underlying case involves a credit card debt collections matter. The plaintiff bought the credit card debt and tried to enforce an arbitration agreement allegedly...
Update (4/7/2017): The 7th Circuit issues an 8-3 en banc decision reversing the district court ruling dismissing the case. ……. I’ve written previously about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) attempts to expand existing...
A number of arbitration-related cases have been decided so far this month in the NJ Court system and there is a theme to all of them: whether an arbitration clause in a contract can compel arbitration. Arbitration is where an arbitrator acts as a private judge for...
If you are a fan of the National Football League (NFL), you probably know about the incident in last season’s NFL playoffs regarding under-inflated balls used by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady which has become known as Deflategate. In a nutshell,...
