The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed an order vacating an arbitration award after equitably tolling the statutory deadline to challenge it enumerated in 9 U.S.C. § 12 due to fraud.

J.J. Prescott, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, has published “Using ODR Platforms to Level the Playing Field: Improving Pro Se Litigation through ODR Design,” Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice (David Freeman Engstrom, ed.) (Cambridge University Press 2023); U. of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper 23-024.

Ancestry.com DNA LLC (“Ancestry”) has reportedly asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to order a putative class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of a group of minors who Alleged the company violated the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”) to arbitration. 

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States held a district court must stay its proceedings pending resolution of an interlocutory appeal related to the question of arbitrability of a dispute that was filed pursuant to 9 U. S. C. §16(a). 

A Mississippi federal judge has blocked a Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) regulation that bars federally funded nursing homes from utilizing pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements.

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a regulation that bans federally funded long-term care facilities such as nursing homes from using pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements.