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Class action waivers and arbitration agreements - justices divided on validity of effective vindication of rights analysis in AMEX oral argument

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2013

The U.S. Supreme Court heard the much anticipated oral argument in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant on February 27, 2013. The issue

Second Circuit declines en banc review in AMEX arbitration agreement case: a Donnybrook over class action waivers and vindication of federal statutory rights

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2012

On February 1, 2012, a two-judge panel of the Second Circuit reaffirmed its holding in an antitrust action brought against American Express (“AMEX”) that class action waivers involving federal statutory rights were unenforceable

Supreme Court rules that parties cannot be required to submit to class arbitration when agreement silent

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2010

On April 27, 2010, in a 5-3 ruling, the Supreme Court held that an arbitration agreement that was silent as to whether it provided for class arbitration could not be construed to require the parties to submit to class arbitration