The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts a state law that states “a compulsory-arbitration provision in a contract may be unconscionable, and therefore unenforceable, if it applies only, or primarily, to claims that just one party to the contract is likely to bring.”

Professor Alan S. Rau, Mark G. and Judy G. Yudof Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, has published an article entitled Arbitrators Without Powers? Disqualifying Counsel in Arbitral Proceedings, Arbitration International, 2014, Forthcoming.

Aligning healthcare business leaders and physicians is more critical than ever states a March/April 2014 article in Healthcare Executive by Jane Calayag.

Paul Bennett Marrow, Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School, and Craig E. Penn, Attorney at Penn & Associates, recently published The ‘Circle of Assent’ Doctrine and the Mandatory Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clause: When the Unconscionable Contract Analysis Just Won’t Do, Dispute Resolution Journal, Vol. 68, No. 3, 2013.