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Codification of Federal Arbitration Act

The Speak Out Act prohibits the judicial enforceability of a nondisclosure clause or nondisparagement clause agreed to before a dispute arises involving sexual assault or sexual harassment in violation of federal, tribal, or state law.

Includes the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act

A Better Balance 6/3/23

Describes how arbitration is used to resolve parties' commercial disputes under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce and its court, the International Court of Arbitration (ICA).

This is a collection of postings from 2011 by SCOTUSBlog contributors about the topic of arbitration, focusing specifically on the 2011 Supreme Court case of AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion.

The American Arbitration Association (AAA), is a not-for-profit organization with offices throughout the U.S. AAA has a long history and experience in the field of alternative dispute resolution, providing services to individuals and organizations who wish to resolve conflicts out of court.
Established in 1996 as the global component of the American Arbitration Association, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) provides conflict-management services in more than 80 countries with a staff fluent in 12 languages.

American Arbitration Association 12/2/20

from F. Peter Phillips' website. He is an arbitrator practicing through Business Conflict Management LLC in Montclair, New Jersey. He is also the Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Skills Program at New York Law School.

International organization for the resolution of arguments about sports. Created by the Paris Agreement.

Dispute Resolution Services

Information about laws, practice and procedures relating to the arbitration of transnational disputes.

JAMS is the largest private alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider in the world. With its prestigious panel of neutrals, JAMS specializes in mediating and arbitrating complex, multi-party, business/commercial cases – those in which the choice of neutral is crucial.

The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, also known as the "New York Arbitration Convention" or the "New York Convention", is one of the key instruments in international arbitration. The New York Convention applies to the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and the referral by a court to arbitration.

In 1990, the United States became a party to the Panama Convention, which specifically applies to commercial disputes. Concerned with the limited scope of the New York Convention, Latin American countries and the United States sought to harmonize both arbitral processes and the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards on a regional level. Only applies to arbitration agreements as to commercial transactions. Although the Panama Convention has nowhere near the same global effect as the New York Convention, it nevertheless plays a vital role in promoting international trade in the Western Hemisphere. Seventeen Western Hemisphere countries have ratified the Panama Convention since its adoption, including the United States.

NPR 2016. Sutter Health hospitals is trying to make companies who contract with them to agree to submit their complaints to binding arbitration. Arbitration can be a good thing, but forced arbitration is not.

New York Times 2015 article about arbitration clauses in consumer contracts.

Kluwer Arbitration Blog 11/26/19

Database from Yale Law School

This act has been adopted in 18 states, but not Ohio.

from the National Consumer Law Center. Has not been adopted by any states.

In 2023, the US Supreme Court will decide whether a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration ousts a district court’s jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending appeal.

US Supreme Court ruled 4/24/19 that under the Federal Arbitration Act, an ambiguous agreement cannot provide the necessary contractual basis for concluding that the parties agreed to submit to class arbitration.