A couple weeks ago, Prof. Rau over at the law school (with whom Karl has co-spoken about arbitration at a number of CLE programs) sent us a copy of his recent dissection of the Hall Street vs. Mattel Supreme Court opinion (link is to .pdf file), about which we blogged when it came out. The [...]
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Earlier this morning, the Florida Arbitration Blog, a blog we read regularly and think highly of, posted a fairly critical review of an article in the Defense Research Institute’s magazine that apparently laments the pervasive use of mandatory arbitration as an assault on the jury system. Since the DRI does not allow non-members access to [...]
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Professor Alan Scott Rau Responds to Hall Street v. Mattel
Professor Alan Scott Rau sent the following comments to Karl in response to our thoughts about his recent article on Hall Street v. Mattel. They are helpful, and they raise a question for our readers, that is, for lawyers in the trenches in Texas. The [unedited] comments follow: Two points, one small, one rather larger: [...]
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