This article was originally published in The Dispute Revolver. It is republished here with permission. On March 22, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would consider the hotly contested issue of whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (“Section 1782”) grants parties to international commercial arbitrations seated outside the United... Read More
$92 million. $650 million. These are the settlement figures that TikTok Inc. and Facebook Inc., two of the world’s largest social media titans, recently agreed to pay to resolve class actions involving purported violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. With these settlement figures in mind, it should come... Read More
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, parties to an arbitration agreement and arbitrators have grappled with the issue of the right to a live, in-person arbitration hearing. Is there a due process concern that flows from conducting remote proceedings over one side’s insistence on in-person hearing? For example, parties’ facility with presenting... Read More