The Supreme Court has decided Morgan v. Sundance Inc., No. 21-328, ruling unanimously that there is no prejudice requirement under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) for a court to find a waiver of arbitration rights. We reported in December 2021 that the Supreme Court had granted Certiorari in four cases involving arbitration, among them Sundance. Specifically, the Court on November 15 agreed to review Morgan v. Sundance…
FINRA Dispute Resolution Services (“DRS”) posted case statistics through March, with the overall case filing trends – with one exception – about the same as before. We summarized these stats in SAA 2022-16 (Apr. 28), and promised an analysis in this week’s Alert. While we still caution that results after three months are a still somewhat small sample, we…
The SEC’s Division of Examinations (“DOE”) has issued its exam priorities for 2022. Once again, FINRA’s dispute resolution program isn’t included. The 32-page DOE Report was announced in a March 30 Press Release. Division of Examinations Acting Director Richard R. Best articulates these objectives: “In this time of heightened market volatility, our priorities are tailored to focus on emerging issues, such…
The lack of an affirmative action by the consumer to accept the browsewrap agreement’s Terms of Service “TOS”) doomed the PDAA therein. Whether a predispute arbitration agreement (“PDAA”) in Terms of Service (“TOS”) in an online “browsewrap” agreement is enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act depends largely on whether the TOS containing the PDAA were…
The recent pace of legislative activity prompted us to look up how many bills have been introduced in the 117th Congress that in some way, shape, or form, refer to arbitration. A search we conducted using the non-partisan www.govtrack.us Website shows that 171 bills have been introduced so far that contain the term “arbitration” or “arbitrate” – 106 in the House and…