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Showing posts with label arbitration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arbitration. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2024

Consumers turn tables against corporate defense in compelled arbitration of information privacy claims

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Image via www.vpnsrus.com by Mike MacKenzie CC BY 2.0 Consumer plaintiffs turned the usual tables on corporate defense in the fall when a ...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Acuerdo en inglés para arbitrar vincula al firmante de habla hispana aunque no lo entendió, tribunal concluye

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(English translation by Google: Agreement in English to arbitrate binds Spanish-speaking signatory even though he did not understand it, cou...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Can Arsenal supporter be impartial in football inquiry?

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A curious story of lawyering ethics and football allegiance broke in mid-May, just after I went off contract with UMass Law and left the Sta...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

EEOC withholds records in arbitration matters; corporate frustration with secret justice is ironic

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Janet Dhillon According to employers' lawyers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is denying public access to investigat...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Grubhub drivers signed away right to sue, court rules

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Haydn Blackey via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Grubhub drivers signed away their right to sue on unfair wage claims, the Massachusetts Supreme Judic...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Whitehouse laments mandatory arbitration, civil jury woes; SCOTUS-nominated Jackson does not engage

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I., one of my state senators) just questioned U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Uber suffers high court loss, but binding arbitration, blanket disclaimers still devastate consumer rights

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Image by Mike Lang CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Signs of life were spotted on the dead planet of consumer rights in click-wrap agreements. But don'...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Secret civil justice undermines employee rights

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Pintera Studios A story investigated by ProPublica and featured on Planet Money highlights the problem of secret justice in perpetuating the...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Waiver of negligence precludes later suit by family, high court holds in nursing home, diving death cases

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Image by edar from Pixabay In two cases at the end of February, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made clear that a person's...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Honduran law dean joins UMass comparative law class

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Speaking from UNITEC in Tegucigalpa, Dean Castro Valle explained how her 2018 English-language article on comparative tort law ( featured ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

International arbitration, U.S. common law collide in skilled student note

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I have been remiss not to mention earlier an incisive work on arbitration law by Chad Yates, '19. "Manifest Disregard in Internatio...
Friday, November 3, 2017

UIA Congress studies global legal issues: irresponsible journalism, anti-corruption in sport, and intellectual freedom in fashion

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Just this week I returned from the annual world congress of the Union Internationale des Avocats, which did not disappoint.   Lawyers f...
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