Pursuant to federal appellate law, the timely filing of a petition for rehearing postpones the issuance of the mandate until disposition of the petition. In effect, this means that until the 9 th ...

California employers received welcome reassurance last week that they are free to require employees enter into arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. This is the result of an opinion ...

The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) arbitration program for small rate disputes will not go forward as written in its Dec. 19, 2022, rule. On Dec. 19, 2022, the STB adopted a final rule to ...

As we all know, courts throughout Florida have halted in-person jury trials for almost all of 2020 due to COVID-19. Unfortunately, despite the prospect of a vaccine being widely distributed and ...

The US Supreme Court this week refused to hear arguments that nursing homes should be able to require pre-dispute arbitration agreements, clearing the way for enforcement of stiff new arbitration ...

Two rulemakings to establish rate reasonableness processes for small rate disputes are moving forward, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) reported on Nov. 15. STB said it issued concurrently a ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has adopted two rules establishing new rate reasonableness procedures that provide two streamlined approaches for shippers and railroads to resolve smaller rate ...