Last week, the Supreme Court of Texas ordered that a trust dispute must be submitted to arbitration. In Rachal v. Reitz, 11-0708, (Tex. May 3, 2013), a trust beneficiary, John Reitz, sued a successor trustee who was also the attorney who drafted the trust, Hal Rachal, Jr., for breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trust assets, and failure to provide an accounting as required by state law. In addition, Reitz sought a temporary injunction against Rachal, his removal as trustee, and damages.

S.I. Strong, Associate Professor of Law and Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri recently authored an article discussing the changing role of discovery requests pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1782 in international arbitration disputes.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a federal court may enjoin arbitrable state-law claims in an insurance dispute. Next, the Appeals Court dismissed Appellants’ argument that Aflac’s request for arbitration and motion to enjoin their state-law claims was barred by the Anti-Injunction Act.

In a recently published paper, Professor Joseph Slater (University of Toledo College of Law) examines the long history of using “interest arbitration” in public-sector labor relations disputes. The paper gives a historical overview of the development of interest arbitration, discussing how and why it developed as it did.