Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has invalidated an arbitration award for lack of jurisdiction.

Pepperdine University School of Law Professor Maureen Weston has authored Retired to Greener Pastures: The Public Costs of Private Judging, UNL-Springer Publication (forthcoming 2013).

The Southern District of Texas has held that a class action waiver in a mediation agreement was enforceable, but a reduced statute of limitations was not.

Professors Peter B. Rutledge, University of Georgia Law School, and Christopher R. Drahozal, University of Kansas School of Law, have authored a paper that uses empirical evidence to examine the effect the United States Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion has had on arbitration clauses in business contracts.