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PERSONAL SEC. & SAFETY SYS. INC. v. MOTOROLA, INC.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Securities Law
A licensing agreement's arbitration provision governs claims arising out of a stock purchase agreement where the agreements were executed as part of...

KAHN v. CHETCUTI

Attorney's Fees, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate
A real estate purchase agreement authorized an arbitrator to determine whether the prevailing party's act of filing a complaint before an obligatory...

PAPER, ALLIED-INDUS., CHEM. & ENERGY WORKERS INT'L UNION, LOCAL 5-0550 v. AIR PROD. & CHEM., INC.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
A federal court has jurisdiction over a union's breach of contract claim, a matter primarily of contract interpretation (though potentially...

ROSENBLUM v. TRAVELBYUS.COM, LTD.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Where an employment agreement was not incorporated by reference into an acquisition agreement, the employment agreement's arbitration clause does not...

MCCASKILL v. SCI MGMT. CORP.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
An arbitration agreement, which bars an employee's ability to recover attorneys' fees under Title VII, is unenforceable where counsel made a binding...

PARDEE CONSTR. CO. v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY (RODRIGUEZ)

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate
Home-purchase agreements were adhesive contracts both procedurally and substantively unconscionable, as were provisions therein, requiring the parties...

GANDY v. GANDY

Bankruptcy Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Claims by a bankruptcy debtor-in-possession will not be compelled to arbitration, where the underlying nature of the proceedings derives exclusively...

IN THE MATTER OF US BRASS CORPORATION

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
A proposed agreement to liquidate claims against a Chapter 11 debtor and its non-debtor affiliates through binding arbitration, would modify a...

BROOKS v. TRAVELERS INS. CO.

Civil Rights, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Upon questions whether the terms of an employer's arbitration policy adequately provide for enforcement of federal rights, employer's concession that...

FREDERICK v. FIRST UNION SEC., INC.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Securities Law
An arbitration clause in an agreement between a corporation and a shareholder is broad enough to include a shareholder's derivative action based on a...