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In Defense Of Moses, Tamar Meshel
In Defense Of Moses, Tamar Meshel
St. John's Law Review
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In 1925, Congress enacted a short statute to make arbitration agreements in maritime transactions and interstate commerce “valid, irrevocable, and enforceable.” Yet the Federal Arbitration Act’s (FAA) simple objective of facilitating the resolution of disputes outside of the courtroom has proven much easier to declare than to implement in practice. In the century since its enactment, the FAA has become a frequently litigated statute and the subject of 59 opinions of the Supreme Court, the majority of which have reversed lower courts’ interpretations of the Act. The Supreme Court’s FAA jurisprudence has not only been abundant but also controversial. …
A Presumptively Better Approach To Arbitrability, John A. E. Pottow, Jacob Brege, Tara J. Hawley
A Presumptively Better Approach To Arbitrability, John A. E. Pottow, Jacob Brege, Tara J. Hawley
Articles
One of the most complex problems in the arbitration field is the question of who decides disputes over the scope of an arbitrator's purported authority. Courts in Canada and the United States have taken different approaches to this fundamental question of "arbitrability" that necessarily arises when one party disputes the contractual validity of the underlying "container" contract carrying the arbitration clause. If arbitration is a creature of contract, and contract is a product of consensual agreement, then any dispute that impugns the underlying consent of the parties to the container contract implicates the arbitration agreement itself (i.e., no contract, no …
Determining Arbitrability Of The Dispute: The Clear And Unmistakable Standard For Choice Of Law In Arbitration Agreements , Kristen Sanocki
Determining Arbitrability Of The Dispute: The Clear And Unmistakable Standard For Choice Of Law In Arbitration Agreements , Kristen Sanocki
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This note will also address the "clear and unmistakable" standard adopted by the Ninth Circuit and used to determine whether or not parties have agreed to apply non-federal arbitrability law. Based on the Ninth Circuit's reasoning in Cape Flattery Ltd. v. Titan Mar., LLC, this Note concludes that the court properly extracted a standard normally used to determine whether a court decides arbitrability as applicable to determining whether parties have sufficiently contracted for non-federal arbitrability law. Lastly, this Note will address the interpretation of arbitration clauses under federal law.
When Precedent Wears Thin: The Missouri Supreme Court Clarifies An Issue Of Ambiguity Affecting The Arbitrability Of Wrongful Death Claims, Ashley Brittain
When Precedent Wears Thin: The Missouri Supreme Court Clarifies An Issue Of Ambiguity Affecting The Arbitrability Of Wrongful Death Claims, Ashley Brittain
Journal of Dispute Resolution
The issue before the Missouri Supreme Court in Lawrence H was whether an arbitration agreement signed on behalf of a nursing home resident is binding on plaintiffs in a wrongful death action against the nursing home. Beverly Manor argued that the court's decision in Burns "undercut" the cases holding that a wrongful death claim is a new and independent cause of action. However, the court disagreed that the Burns decision overturned such precedent. The court admitted that the language of Burns may seem to create ambiguity about whether wrongful death is a derivative claim but clarified that the Burns holding …
Arbitrability Of Arbitrability, The, Michelle St. Germain
Arbitrability Of Arbitrability, The, Michelle St. Germain
Journal of Dispute Resolution
If you can read the following only once and understand it, consider yourself part of a very small minority: "It is the dilemma of the box within a box or, in the case of arbitration, the authority as to the decision as to the authority to make the decision." That is "arbitrability" in a nutshell; not a simple concept. Indeed, at oral argument in First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan, the confusion occurred to a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Re Atlantic Pilotage Authority And Canadian Merchant Service Guild, Innis Christie
Re Atlantic Pilotage Authority And Canadian Merchant Service Guild, Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
Employee Grievances alleging breach of Article 27.05 of the Collective Agreement between the parties dated October 16, 2000, which the parties agreed is the Collective Agreement that governs this matter, in that the Union alleges that each of the Grievors was given notice of recall in accordance with Article 27.05, each was available for the ten-hour period as required and each submitted a request to be paid in accordance with Article 27.05, which was refused. The Union seeks an order that the Employer pay each Grievor at the rate of pay specified in Article 27.05.
Arbitration, Unconscionability, And Equilibrium: The Return Of Unconscionability Analysis As A Counterweight To Arbitration Formalism, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Arbitration, Unconscionability, And Equilibrium: The Return Of Unconscionability Analysis As A Counterweight To Arbitration Formalism, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
However incomplete, unaggressive, or sub-optimal, unconscionability analysis of arbitration agreements has made something of a comeback in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, water seeks to be level, and ecosystems work to retain environmental stability, the legal system has witnessed an incremental effort by lower courts to soften the rough edges of the Supreme Court's pro-arbitration jurisprudence through rediscovery of what might be called the “unconscionability norm”--a collective judicial view as to what aspects of an arbitration arrangement are too unfair to merit judicial enforcement. In rediscovering and reinvigorating the unconscionability norm …
Arbitration And Arbitrability: Toward An Expectation Model, Mark Berger
Arbitration And Arbitrability: Toward An Expectation Model, Mark Berger
Faculty Works
The process of arbitration has been transformed by a series of Supreme Court decisions that have increased the enforceability of arbitration awards. Beyond that, the Supreme Court has also taken steps to ensure the enforceability of promises to arbitrate. These latter arbitrability issues raise questions as to who will decide whether an enforceable agreement to arbitrate has been made and what standard shall be applied in making that determination. This article explores the arbitrability question in the wide variety of settings in which it occurs, including post-contract disputes, successor parties, and the separability doctrine which focuses on challenges to the …
Re Saint John (City Of) And Saint John Fire Fighters' Association, Iaff Local 771 (Davidson), Innis Christie, G Lawson, A Levine
Re Saint John (City Of) And Saint John Fire Fighters' Association, Iaff Local 771 (Davidson), Innis Christie, G Lawson, A Levine
Innis Christie Collection
Union grievance on behalf of the Grievor alleging that he was hired and subsequently fired without due process, contrary to the 2001-2003 Collective Agreement between the parties, and seeking full redress. At the outset of the hearing in this matter the parties agreed that this Board of Arbitration is properly constituted and, subject to the City's preliminary objection, properly seized of this matter. The City made a preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of this Board of Arbitration to hear this matter based on the allegation that the Grievor was never an employee of the City; i.e., that he was never …
Commercial Arbitration In The U.S.: The Arbitrability Of Disputes Arising From Statute-Based Claims, Sylvie Frankignoul
Commercial Arbitration In The U.S.: The Arbitrability Of Disputes Arising From Statute-Based Claims, Sylvie Frankignoul
LLM Theses and Essays
A leading contemporary expert in arbitration has explained: "The concept of arbitrability determines the point at which the experience of contractual freedom ends and the public mission of adjudication begins. In effect, it establishes a dividing line between the transactional pursuit of private rights and courts' role as custodians and interpreters of the public interest." 1 A major part of the arbitrability doctrine deals with the kind of claims that can fall within the scope of agreements for private dispute resolution. Arbitration clauses are an integral part of the parties' transactions. Nevertheless, the American judiciary historically has refused to enforce …
Arbitral Situs: Considerations And Consequences, Rajdeep Singh
Arbitral Situs: Considerations And Consequences, Rajdeep Singh
LLM Theses and Essays
It is the law of the forum that is applicable to matters like arbitrability of the dispute, the validity of the arbitration agreement, the jurisdiction of the arbitrators, their appointment, removal and replacement and the challenge to their authority. Apart from these matters the law of the arbitral situs also governs the conflict of laws rules applicable to the dispute. Though the principle of party autonomy allows the parties to agree to a procedural law other than that of the arbitral situs, they still have to comply with the mandatory provisions of the law of the venue. In case they …
Bootstrapping And Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Arbitral Infatuation And The Decline Of Consent, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Bootstrapping And Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Arbitral Infatuation And The Decline Of Consent, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
The Seventh Amendment to the Constitution preserves for litigants a right to a jury trial in actions at law. The right to a jury trial does not attach for equitable actions, but in cases presenting claims for both legal and equitable relief a right to a jury trial exists for common questions of fact. Although many modern statutes and claims did not exist in 1791, the Amendment has been interpreted to require a jury trial of statutory claims seeking monetary damages, the classic form of legal relief, so long as there is a relatively apt analogy between the modern statutory …
Arbitrator's Jurisdiction To Determine Arbitrability Of Labor Disputes Under Public Sector Collective Bargaining Agreements: Is The Arbitrator's Jurisdiction To Decide Arbitrability In The First Instance The Worst Of Both Worlds - Mclaughlin V. Chester Upland School District, An, Brian D. Kennedy
Journal of Dispute Resolution
The general rule permitting pre-arbitration adjudication of arbitrability has been criticized as an invitation to forum-shopping and a "race to the courthouse," an unnecessary obstacle to expeditious resolution of labor disputes,6 and a bad faith attempt by one party (usually the employer) to breach a contractual commitment to arbitration.7 Overruling a number of its own precedents following this majority rule, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania recently held in McLaughlin v. Chester Upland School District that an arbitrator has the sole and exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance to decide the arbitrability of a labor dispute arising out of a public …
A Better Approach To Arbitrability, Jeffrey W. Stempel
A Better Approach To Arbitrability, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
Historically, Anglo-American courts refused to enforce arbitration agreements, jealously guarding their dispute resolution monopoly. During the early twentieth century, merchants and attorneys began seeking legislation requiring courts to defer to arbitration. The United States Abitration Act took effect January 1, 1926 and has remained essentially unchanged. It was written with the implicit assumption that it would be invoked by commercial actors having relatively equal bargaining power and emotive appeal to a jury. The Act says nothing to direct the court's inquiry concerning the quality of either party's assent to the arbitration clause other than requiring a written arbitration agreement and …
Reconsidering The Employment Contract Exclusion In Section 1 Of The Federal Arbitration Act: Correcting The Judiciary's Failure Of Statutory Vision, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Reconsidering The Employment Contract Exclusion In Section 1 Of The Federal Arbitration Act: Correcting The Judiciary's Failure Of Statutory Vision, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
The Federal Arbitration Act (the Act), seeks to eliminate centuries of perceived judicial hostility toward arbitration agreements. The Act made written arbitration agreements involving interstate commerce specifically enforceable. It also provided a procedural structure for enforcing awards, which were protected through deferential judicial review. The Act intended to have a wide reach, employing a broad definition of commerce that has presumably grown in breadth along with the expansion of judicial notions of commerce. Although courts applied the Act in tentative and cautious fashion until the 1960's, arbitration gained momentum during the 1970's and the 1980's. Despite growing judicial enthusiasm for …
Deciding Arbitrability: At&(And)T Technologies, Inc. V. Communications Workers Of America, Sondra B. Morgan
Deciding Arbitrability: At&(And)T Technologies, Inc. V. Communications Workers Of America, Sondra B. Morgan
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Who decides arbitrability-the courts or the arbitrator? The United States Supreme Court recently addressed this issue in the case of AT&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers of America.2 The Court in AT&T reaffirmed its earlier holding from United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co.,3 where it held that arbitrability is a matter for judicial determination. 4
Uniform Arbitration Act, The
Journal of Dispute Resolution
In 1955, the Uniform Arbitration Act (UAA) was proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.' Since that time, well over half of the states have adopted statutes modeled after the UAA. 2 The purpose of this survey is to explain the principles underlying recent court decisions interpreting the UAA, and provide a framework for analyzing future cases.3
Recent Developments: The Uniform Arbitration Act
Recent Developments: The Uniform Arbitration Act
Journal of Dispute Resolution
The Uniform Arbitration Act (UAA)1 was proposed in 1955 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Since that time, well over half of the states have enacted statutes modeled after the UAA.2 This survey's purpose is to present and explain recent decisions interpreting the UAA, and assist in analyzing future cases.
Recent Developments: The Uniform Arbitration Act
Recent Developments: The Uniform Arbitration Act
Journal of Dispute Resolution
The Uniform Arbitration Act (UAA), 1 proposed by the National Conference on Uniform State Laws in 1955, has been adopted by slightly more than half the states.' The purpose of this survey is to explain the principles underlying court decisions interpreting the UAA, and provide a framework for analyzing future cases.