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Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

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2004

Arbitration

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Georgia General Assembly Adopts Manifest Disregard As A Ground For Vacating Arbitration Awards: How Will Courts Treat The New Standard?, Thomas V. Burch Feb 2004

Georgia General Assembly Adopts Manifest Disregard As A Ground For Vacating Arbitration Awards: How Will Courts Treat The New Standard?, Thomas V. Burch

Thomas V. Burch

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Necessity Never Made A Good Bargain: When Consumer Arbitration Agreements Prohibit Class Relief, Thomas V. Burch Jan 2004

Necessity Never Made A Good Bargain: When Consumer Arbitration Agreements Prohibit Class Relief, Thomas V. Burch

Thomas V. Burch

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Reexamining Arbitral Immunity In An Age Of Mandatory And Professional Arbitration, Maureen A. Weston Prof. Dec 2003

Reexamining Arbitral Immunity In An Age Of Mandatory And Professional Arbitration, Maureen A. Weston Prof.

Maureen A Weston

In the past ten to twenty years, the use of arbitration as a form of private dispute resolution has proliferated as a result of mandatory predispute and form arbitration contracts between corporate entities and their customers, patients, or employees. This increase has spawned a market for professional private arbitrators and an industry of private businesses that provide arbitration support and administrative services (provider institutions). Under the doctrine of arbitral immunity, both arbitrators and provider institutions are immune from civil liability. The result of this immunity, however, is that parties injured by arbitral misconduct have limited recourse and no effective remedy. …