5/22/2024 5:39:43 PM Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split: Federal Arbitration Act Mandates a Stay of Court Proceedings, Not Dismissal By Zachary Berryman Kelly Becker Tommy McGoey In a recent decision, the United States Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires a court to stay a...
5/22/2024 5:36:34 PM Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split: Federal Arbitration Act Mandates a Stay of Court Proceedings, Not Dismissal By Zachary Berryman Kelly Becker Tommy McGoey In a recent decision, the United States Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires a court to stay a...
1/24/2024 8:11:00 PM Third Circuit Restores Rule B Attachment Based On Breach of Contract Claim Under English Law, Implied Indemnity Claim Not Enough By Jonas Patzwall Liskow On June 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit analyzed what constitutes a prima facie maritime claim sufficient to support...
2/11/2022 7:33:43 PM Senate Passes Bill Barring Mandatory Arbitration in Sexual Misconduct Cases By Tommy McGoey In a significant win for the #MeToo movement, the U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday, February 10, 2021, which ensures that...
2/11/2022 6:57:26 PM Senate Passes Bill Barring Mandatory Arbitration in Sexual Misconduct Cases By Tommy McGoey Liskow Originally Posted on The Energy Law Blog In a significant win for the #MeToo movement, the U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday,...
2/4/2021 3:59:20 PM Supreme Court Punts on Important Arbitrability Question By Tommy McGoey On January 25, 2021, the United States Supreme Court dismissed, as “improvidently granted,” a writ of certiorari it had previously...
1/20/2021 10:52:19 PM It’s Heating Up: United States Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Proper Jurisdiction for Climate-Change Lawsuit By Michael Cash Wade Howard Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018...
10/2/2020 8:44:59 PM U.S. Supreme Court To Review Scope of Appellate Review for Federal Officer Removal in Climate Change Litigation By Liskow Today, the United States Supreme Court granted a Petition for Certiorari filed by energy companies in Baltimore’s climate change...
6/24/2019 3:19:53 PM SCOTUS Decides Dutra Group v. Batterton By Liskow Today the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in this landmark case concerning punitive damages. The six justices in the...
1/17/2019 10:34:30 PM New U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Clarify the Courts’ Authority to Compel Arbitration By Tommy McGoey Liskow Commercial and employment agreements often include provisions requiring arbitration of disputes between the parties. Some of these...
5/21/2018 10:01:16 PM Supreme Court Validates Employer’s Right to Require Class and Collective Action Waivers in Employment-Related Arbitration Agreements By Tommy McGoey The United States Supreme Court ruled today that contracts requiring individualized arbitration of employment-related disputes are...
10/28/2016 2:12:53 PM New Government Contractor “Blacklisting” Reporting Requirements Put on Hold By Liskow Tommy McGoey Jaclyn Hickman Hours before a controversial set of new reporting requirements for government contractors was set to take effect, a federal court in...