Philip J. Loree, Jr.

Part II: The Legal Landscape: Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle By Philip J. Loree Jr. Introduction As discussed in Part I, Stolt-Nielsen is a do-over of sorts. Back in 2003 the United States Supreme Court set out to decide in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle whether imposing class arbitration on parties whose agreement is silent on that point is consistent with the Federal Arbitration Act. But that never happened because it turned out the

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Part I: Introduction By Philip J. Loree Jr. Introduction The Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum is delighted to guest post once again on Karl Bayer’s and Victoria VanBuren’s wonderful ADR blog, Disputing. Because Victoria and I have both written fairly extensively about Hall Street Assoc. v. Mattel, Inc, 128 S. Ct. 1396 (2008), and about two of the most frequently cited cases construing Hall Street’s dictum on manifest disregard of the l

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By Philip Loree, Jr. Introduction The Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum is pleased and honored that Victoria VanBuren of Disputing has invited us to guest blog on the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009 (the “Arbitration Fairness Act”). Our blog shall likewise be featuring Victoria as a guest blogger from time-to-time. Victoria suggested that the Arbitration Fairness Act would be a particularly pertinent topic in light of the “Arbitration

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[Ed. note: see guest blog post here] Disputing will be honored to have guest blogger Philip Loree, Jr. Phil will be sharing insightful comments and will propose some solutions to the problems that the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009 will likely create in disputes between commercial entities. (see past coverage of the Act here and here) Phil is a partner at the boutique law firm of Loree & Loree, where he focuses his practice on reinsurance l

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