“Today, it appears that the arbitration dockets may be more congested than the dockets of most federal district courts.”

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A St. Louis judge heard arguments Wednesday on whether a sex discrimination case against Anheuser-Busch should be handled in arbitration. The brewer’s attorney, Gerard “Jerry” Carmody, argued before St. Louis Circuit Judge Mark Neill that former A-B executive, Francine Katz, ...

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Attorney John Campbell opened an e-mail alert from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday morning with some apprehension. At stake was his class action lawsuit against a payday lender that wanted the matter to be arbitrated. And while Campbell thought he had a sensible argument against arbitration, it was a "close call based on the law that existed."

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An appeal heard Wednesday in Kansas City could determine if a private arbitrator can rule on matters involving the unauthorized practice of law. Lawsuits throughout the state allege that dealerships engaged in the unauthorized practice of law when they charged ...

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Financial crises have a way of jolting investors into seeing that perhaps their brokers weren’t such trustworthy advisers after all. Requests for arbitration hearings are up 85 percent so far this year at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the only ...

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Coming next month to a movie screen near you is a tear-jerker of a story about little Scott Swimm. Swimm, 7, was skiing down a trail at Colorado’s Beaver Creek Ski Resort in 2007 when he ran into 60-year-old David ...

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