The plaintiff's original complaint relied on a certain purchase agreement (PA) that included an arbitration clause. While the appeal was pending, the lower court permitted the plaintiff to amend the complaint to no longer rely on the PA for its claims. As a ...
In two separate consumer lawsuits against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, federal trial courts in California granted Coinbase’s motions to compel arbitration based on the arbitration provision in its user agreement.
In Donovan v. Coinbase Global, Inc ...
The Supreme Court of Wyoming recently rejected claims by a party that had largely prevailed in arbitration, but asserted that it should have received its fees, and that the arbitrator incorrectly decided several issues.
Fork Road, LLC owned part of a building ...
The Fifth Circuit affirmed judgments confirming an arbitration award despite concluding that the lower courts should have considered one of the party’s claims that a dispute decided by the arbitrator was beyond the scope of arbitration.
Attorney Jon ...
In Damon Immediato, et al., v. Postmates, Inc., the First Circuit addressed the issue of whether couriers who deliver goods from local restaurants and grocery stores are “transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce such that they are exempt from ...
In Smarter Tools, Inc., v. Chongqing Seni Import & Export Trade Co., Ltd., et al., the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s order denying Smarter Tools, Inc.’s (STI) petition to vacate an arbitration award and granting Chongqing Seni Import & Export ...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision and compelled arbitration based on its determination that one of the litigants, Experian, was a party to the arbitration provision, despite the fact that Experian was not a party to the wider ...
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