Today marks the start of the United States Supreme Court’s new term. During the term, the nation’s highest court will resolve a circuit court split regarding whether Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption for “any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce,” applies to transportation workers who perform work for companies that operate outside of the transportation industry. 

The Southern District of Texas has denied an Uber driver’s motion to vacate an arbitration award that was issued in favor of the company and granted Uber’s motion to confirm the award. 

Professor Amy J. Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute Responsible Data Science CoP at The Ohio State University’s Michael E. Moritz College of Law, has written a draft book chapter titled “Clarifying Section 7 to Accommodate OArb,” The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform (Richard A. Bales & Jill I. Gross, editors, forthcoming 2024 Cambridge University Press); Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 797. 

Roseanna Sommers, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, has written “What Do Consumers Understand About Predispute Arbitration Agreements? An Empirical Investigation.”

Yesterday, the Texas Senate’s Committee on Business and Commerce voted 7-2 to approve a substitute Senate Bill 1264 that was introduced in an effort to protect Texas patients from incurring surprise out-of-network medical bills.

The 86th Texas Legislature is considering a bi-partisan bill that would require health insurance companies to mediate any cost of service disputes with doctors and other medical providers prior to sending a bill for the difference to patients.