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In early 2020, a federal judge in San Francisco issued an unusual order: He compelled DoorDash, the food-delivery company, to submit to the arbitration proceedings it had itself contractually required. Over 5,000 delivery drivers had filed individual arbitration demands – …
For decades, the SEC stood as the principal barrier to mandatory arbitration for shareholder claims. In September 2025, that barrier fell. The agency’s reversal on shareholder arbitration represents a seismic policy shift, leaving Delaware law as the sole impediment …
With new leadership under the Trump administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) is charting a course that promises significant changes in the regulation of securities disclosures and capital markets. In this alert, we discuss several important trends and developments …
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just assisting the legal profession but transforming it – including by shaping how disputes are resolved. In arbitration, algorithms are already used to select arbitrators, analyze documents, and draft procedural orders. The essential question …
On September 17, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) voted to approve the issuance of a Policy Statement (the Policy Statement) providing guidance on the Commission’s views on the use of mandatory arbitration provisions in …
On September 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in Frazier v. X Corp., No. 24-1948, — F.4th —-, 2025 WL 2502133 (2d Cir. Sept. 2, 2025), that a district court cannot intervene in …
Three recent court decisions relating to motions to compel arbitration provide insights as to how courts consider issues that commonly arise in the context of consumer arbitration.
On June 30, 2025, the United States District Court for the Southern District …
In August 2024, Delaware enacted what are widely considered the most significant and controversial amendments to the state’s corporate statute in at least a generation. Principally, those amendments exalt freedom of contract over what was, in the words of the …
On April 15, 2025, the American Arbitration Association (AAA) distributed an infographic with statistics on mass arbitration in 2024, which could be read to suggest that the consumer mass arbitration process is functioning effectively. Those steeped in defending mass arbitrations, …
On March 13, 2025, a divided Second Circuit in Davitashvili v. Grubhub Inc. affirmed in part and reversed in part a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denying three major food delivery platforms’ …
In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technology, smart contracts have emerged as a revolutionary tool for documenting transactions. These self-executing contracts, with terms transcribed directly into code, are designed to automate and enforce agreements without the need for intermediaries.
On July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded its most consequential Term in years, with a flood of decisions on contentious issues ranging from abortion access to the regulation of social media companies and gun possession to presidential immunity. The …
On May 23, 2024, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held in Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski that where there are two competing contracts – one requiring the arbitration of disputes (including the arbitrator deciding whether a dispute is arbitrable), and …
In a memorandum opinion and order issued on March 27, 2024, in In re Yellow Corporation, et. al., Judge Craig T. Goldblatt denied motions filed by multiemployer pension funds to arbitrate debtors’ objections to pension withdrawal liability claims in …
As was true last year, the recently completed Supreme Court Term was marked by several high-profile and contentious decisions in which a conservative 6-to-3 majority, for example, ended race-conscious affirmative action in higher education, scuttled President Biden’s student debt relief …
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court concluded its most tumultuous Term in recent memory. The Term was marked by a number of closely divided decisions on contentious issues ranging from President Biden’s vaccination mandate to gun rights to religious liberty. Anticipation …
On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act[1] into law. The law amends the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) to prohibit the use of mandatory arbitration provisions to resolve sexual …
In an important decision for arbitration users, the U.K. Supreme Court has clarified how English law will determine the governing law of an arbitration agreement which provides for an English seat in the absence of an express choice of law. …
In the middle decades of the 20th century, government officials broadened access to the courts, placing public law more at the center of traditionally private disputes. They professionalized and regularized criminal justice, which previously had been a somewhat, if not …