Michael L. Rustad, Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, and Thomas H. Koenig, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology in the Law and Public Policy program at Northeastern University, have published an interesting research paper entitled, Wolves of the World Wide Web: Reforming Social Networks’ Contracting Practices, Wake Forest Law Review (Forthcoming); Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 14-25.

Texas’ Eighth District has overturned a trial court’s decision that an arbitration agreement is unconscionable. In Whataburger Restaurants, LLC v. Cardwell, No. 08-13-00280-CV (Tex. App. – El Paso, August 13, 2014), a woman, Yvonne Cardwell, signed an acknowledgement prior to beginning working as a dishwasher for Whataburger which stated she understood that any employment or injury disputes would be subject to arbitration in Dallas.

Houston’s First District Court of Appeals has dismissed an interlocutory appeal over a trial court’s order compelling arbitration “for want of jurisdiction.”

Professor Linda S. Mullenix, Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law, has authored Gaming the System: Protecting Consumers from Unconscionable Contractual Forum Selection and Arbitration Clauses, Forthcoming 66 Hasting L.J. ___ (symposium issue #3, 2015)(draft paper); U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 568.