Louis Del Duca, Edward N. Polisher Distinguished Faculty Scholar Emeritus and Director, Institute of Commercial Law at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, has published Consumer Financing Pre-Dispute Mandatory Arbitration: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Developments, Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal, Vol. 46, p. 71, 2014.

A federal judge in California has reportedly ordered a consumer privacy dispute that was filed against technology giant Google to mediation.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court’s order allowing an arbitrator to determine the issue of arbitrability in a labor contract dispute.

The Fourteenth District Court of Appeals in Houston has reversed a lower court’s decision confirming an arbitral award without rendering a final judgment. In Leslie v. Hill, No. 14-13-00600-CV (October 16, 2014), two individuals, the Hills, entered into a contract to purchase a majority interest a company from Robert Leslie in 2007. A provision in the agreement stated all disputes related to the purchase contract would be decided through binding arbitration in Louisiana.