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Avery v. Integrated Healthcare Holdings, Inc.

Class Actions, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
The trial court's order denying defendant's motions to compel plaintiffs to individually arbitrate the wage and hour claims they allege in this class...

Abers v. Rohrs

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate
The trial court's order dismissing plaintiffs' petition to vacate an arbitration award setting the allowable increases in monthly rent charged by the...

Mortensen v. Bresnan Communications, LLC

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
The district court's decision not to enforce an arbitration clause and a choice of law clause in defendant's broadband Internet service subscriber...

Roberts v. Packard, Packard & Johnson

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law
The trial court erred in awarding interim attorney fees to the defendant-former attorneys for filing a successful petition to compel arbitration of...

Leos v. Darden Restaurants, Inc.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
The trial court erred in denying defendant-employer's motion to compel arbitration of plaintiff-employees' claims, where although the arbitration...

City of Los Angeles v. Superior Court (Engineers & Architects Association)

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Court of Appeals' conclusion that petitioner-city could not be compelled to arbitrate the union's claims regarding a furloughs dispute because...

American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Antitrust & Trade Regulation
The Federal Arbitration Act does not permit courts to invalidate a contractual waiver of class arbitration on the ground that the plaintiffs' cost of...

Boston Property Exchange Transfer Co. v. Iantosca

Professional Malpractice, Property Law & Real Estate, Securities Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's claims that defendants and their lawyers mishandled an arbitration against a third party, PaineWebber, that plaintiff had...

Oxford Health Plans v. Sutter

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Contracts
In a proposed class action suit brought by a physician under contract with a health insurance company, alleging nonpayment, the Third Circuit's...

Interdigital Communications, LLC v. International Trade Commission

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Intellectual Property, Patent, International Trade
Appeal from an ITC order terminating an investigation of LG Electronics, in favor of arbitration on the basis of a prior patent license agreement that...