Highly Qualified, Candidates Increasing Diversity in Commercial Arbitration AUSTIN, TX – The College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA) announces its 2024 “CCA Associates,” a carefully selected group of well-qualified arbitrators. The CCA launched the Associates Mentorship Program in 2022 to assist arbitrators from diverse backgrounds with their efforts to develop commercial arbitration practices. All CCA Associates have active alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices, but less than …
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SCOTUS Holds That Transportation Worker Need Not Work in Transportation Industry to Qualify for FAA Section 1 Exemption
On April 12, 2024, in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries St., LLC (“Bissonnette”), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously resolved a split in the U.S. Courts of Appeal concerning the scope of the exemption in Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce." Last Term, in Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon (“Saxon”), SCOTUS had held that “any class of workers directly …