The coming week could be a big one for arbitration cases at the United States Supreme Court. First, the Court will hear oral argument in Rent-a-Center West v. Jackson, No. 09-497 on Monday April 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. Rent-a-Center, which arises under the…

Back in December 2009 we started posting in the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum a series of articles on vacating arbitration awards under the Federal Arbitration Act. We published the first in the series on December 8, 2009, and two follow-up posts since then. There is a fourth in the works, and a fifth will follow.

I figured that members of the ADRHub who do not ordinarily follow the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum might enjoy this series,…

This was posted earlier today in the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum:

Readers are excruciatingly aware of the amount of time and energy we expend on what seems at first blush to be a relatively arcane area of the law: practice and procedure under the Federal Arbitration Act. It is a…

In George Watts & Son v. Tiffany & Co., 248 F.3d 577 (7^th Cir. 2001), then Circuit Judge (now Chief Judge) Frank H.…