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Read before you sign for that car, Md. court ruling shows
Maryland’s top court this week provided would-be car purchasers with an abject lesson on the importance of reading everything before they sign.
Get paid, not burned: free mediation and arbitration
The Bar Association of Baltimore City offers free mediation and arbitration for attorney-client related fee disputes.
Hooters assails arbitration decision
The restaurant chain criticizes a $250,000 award to a black woman allegedly fired because of her hair color and defends its "image policy."
Lance Armstrong loses $10 million arbitration ruling
An arbitration panel ordered Lance Armstrong and Tailwind Sports Corp. to pay $10 million in a fraud dispute with a promotions company for what it called an "unparalleled pageant of international perjury, fraud and conspiracy" that covered up his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Md. court: Union members lack right to union rep during criminal inquiries
Union members have no right to union representation when being investigated for possible criminal conduct, a Maryland appeals court has held in overturning an arbitrator’s decision.
Judge orders Nats, MASN to maintain status quo in licensing dispute
A New York judge has granted the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network a preliminary injunction barring the Washington Nationals from pulling its games from MASN or otherwise trying to enforce a $10 million arbitration award while the network challenges the award in court.
Judge throws out too-low award to paralyzed ship worker
The Rev. Mary H.T. Davisson, chaplain for The Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center, was busy when she got the call to go to the hospital to visit an injured Filipino mariner. She asked if it could wait a day. The caller said no.
Court rejects Del. appeal over secret arbitration
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively killed a Delaware law that allowed state judges to preside over secret arbitration in high-stakes business disputes.
Arbitration scheduled in Port of Baltimore strike
An arbitration meeting is scheduled between striking longshoremen at the Port of Baltimore and management. The longshoremen, the largest of four unions at the port representing more than 1,000 workers, […]
Arbitration ruling divides litigation bar, spurs calls to Congress
The chasm between corporate-defense attorneys who extol the virtues of mandatory arbitration agreements and members of the plaintiffs’ bar who say the pacts strip consumers of their right to redress was widened by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.
Ex-players call NFL brain-injury panel a ‘sham’
PHILADELPHIA — Former NFL players trying to sue the league over concussion-linked injuries argued in court Tuesday that the NFL “glorified” violence and profited from damaging hits to the head. […]
Supreme Court rules in favor of arbitration
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that disputes between consumers and companies that issue credit cards to people with bad credit ratings can be handled in business-friendly arbitration, rather […]
