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Gateway Widens Doorway To Imposing Unfair Binding Arbitration On Consumers, Jean R. Sternlight

Scholarly Works

Hill v. Gateway, is but the most extreme example of a series of court decisions that allow large companies to impose potentially unfair binding arbitration agreements on unwitting consumers. The outcome in Gateway, however, is questionable on federal statutory, common law, and constitutional grounds.

A Post-Conference Reflection On Separate Ethical Aspirations For Adr's Not-So-Separate Practitioners, John Q. Barrett

Faculty Publications

At "The Lawyer's Duties and Responsibilities in Dispute Resolution" Symposium at South Texas College of Law, Oct. 25, 1996, a central topic of discussion was ADR's ethical separateness. There was a shared sense that ADR providers and practitioners confront a range of ethical issues that differ from those that confront non-ADR lawyers. On this view, because rules of professional responsibility are geared toward more adversarial forms of legal practice, they at best provide no answers and may provide wrong answers to ethical questions that arise in ADR. One solution would be to create new, separate, "role-specific" ethics rules for ADR …

Drafting Mediation Privileges: Lessons From The Civil Justice Reform Act, Michael A. Perino

Faculty Publications

Mediation confidentiality provisions or privileges are now prevalent throughout the United States. Forty-one states have enacted some form of mediation privilege. As part of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1990, Congress enacted legislation to protect confidentiality in mediations involving federal agencies. An additional source for such provisions is the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (CJRA), which required each federal district court to implement a civil justice expense and delay reduction plan (Plan(s)) by the end of 1993. Those Plans seek to implement mechanisms designed to address causes of excessive expense and delay in the federal courts.

A number …

Mediation: A Systemic Alternative To Litigation For Resolution Of Church Employment Disputes, J. Michael Fitzgerald, Lynne M.L. Fitzgerald

St. Thomas Law Review

The Catholic Church is a multi-layered system composed of people, as well as entities (e.g., corporations, partnerships, etc.), many of which have been created in an American civil law model. They include, but are not limited to: local parish churches, schools, newspapers, radio and television stations, hospitals, nursing homes, cemeteries, hospices and credit unions. By necessity they employ people to carry out their functions. Disputes can and do arise between these employers and their employees. It has been proposed that methods which are compatible with the conciliatory ways of the Church can be implemented in resolving such disputes. Specifically, this …

Cautionary Lessons From American Securities Arbitration: Litigation Versus Arbitration, Ronald D. Rotunda

Law Faculty News Articles, Editorials, and Blogs

In the United States, it is now quite common for lawyers and others to bemoan what is often referred to as 'the litigation crisis. ' No less an authority than former Chief Justice Warren Burger has long complained that American courts 'have become overburdened' by too may lawsuits... Similarly, the Report of the prestigious American Bar Association's Commission on Professionalism recommends expanded use of arbitration in lieu of a norrnal trial before a judge and lay jury. There should be no rush to judgment favouring arbitration. In the first place, it is not at all clear that there is a …

Agenda: The Public Lands During The Remainder Of The 20th Century: Planning, Law, And Policy In The Federal Land Agencies, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

The Public Lands During the Remainder of the 20th Century: Planning, Law, and Policy in the Federal Land Agencies (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

Conference organizers and/or speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Charles F. Wilkinson.

Public land management has undergone major changes in recent years in response to the greatly increased planning responsibilities mandated by Congress.

Public Lands During the Remainder of the 20th Century: Planning Law and Policy in the Federal Land Agencies looked at management and planning issues related to seven major resources in the public lands: timber, rangeland, minerals, wildlife, water, recreation, and preservation values. Charles F. Wilkinson, Professor of Law, University of Colorado, gave a luncheon talk on "Public Land Planning: Will …