The First District Appellate Court in Illinois affirmed the trial court's denial of a defendant law firm's motion to compel arbitration on the basis that the arbitration provision in the ...

In Bain v. Airoom, LLC, No. 1-21-001, 2022 Ill. App. LEXIS 241, the Appellate Court of Illinois (Appellate Court) considered whether the lower court erred in enforcing an arbitration clause in a ...

The Mental Health Matters Act would, among other things, ban forced arbitration clauses, class action waivers, discretionary clauses, and representation waivers in ERISA-governed plans. The Mental ...

"An initial scan of Section 27 reveals a series of difficult to decipher and contradictory sentences contained in a single arbitration clause," Judge Morris G. Smith said in his written opinion for ...

PHILADELPHIA, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — How can an arbitration clause be unconscionable and unenforceable? Let me count the ways: Not just one way, not just two or even three, but Eight (8) ...

Arizona’s attorney general is attempting to intervene in a civil lawsuit against a nursing home, arguing the facility’s attempt to compel arbitration and enforce a “secrecy clause” makes a signed ...

"According to AAA, the average consumer arbitration requires 6.9 months to complete," Judge Stephanie Ann Mitterhoff wrote. "Plaintiffs' counsel, DeNittis Osefchen Prince, represented an additional ...

The James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, the headquarters of the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco. (Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Courthouse News) (CN) — In a major reversal, the Ninth ...

Two cases ruling that mandatory individual arbitration clauses are unenforceable are effectively upheld, at least for now. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear two cases concerning the ...

If you use the Venmo app, you probably recently received an email explaining that the company is making changes to its user agreement — including a fairly onerous arbitration clause that, among other ...

In December 2015, a fire broke out in an apartment building on Ocean Front Walk in Santa Monica. Fortunately, no one was injured; but the fire rendered the apartments uninhabitable. Most of the ...

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