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Arbitration Law Memo
February 25, 2006 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo
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The February edition has some interesting stuff.
- From the US Supreme Court, the holding that it still is the arbitrator, not the court, that decides whether a contract that contains an imbedded arbitration agreement is legal - void, or voidable.
- From California, a holding that class action waiver clauses are lawful if properly agreed to.
- From the 9th Circuit, a holding that an ERISA subscriber is not bound by an arbitration clause in the contract between the ERISA Plan and its investment advisor.
- A 6th Circuit opinion that urges the whole (en banc) 6th Circuit court to rehear a case and to re-examine that Circuit's standards for overturning a grievance arbitration award.
- And, amazingly, an arbitration award overturned because the arbitrator used Arbitrator Carroll Daugherty's seven elements of "just cause" instead of the Black's Law Dictionary definition.
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