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26 Apr 2010, 5:00 am by Victoria VanBuren
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division held that an arbitration agreement naming the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) as the arbitrator was unenforceable because NAF (now unavailable) was an integral part of the arbitration provision. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 4:05 am
If the arbitration clause was part of the contract, it called for any disputes to be “resolved exclusively and finally by arbitration administered by the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) and conducted under its rules,” id. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 11:33 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
As noted previously, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration has issued a call for papers for its First Annual Winter Forum, to be held February 2-3, 2012, in San Francisco. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 4:50 pm
Legislation on Arbitration and Mediation: Update (Oct. 14) Class Action Suit Filed Against the National Arbitration Forum (Sept. 17) U.S. [read post]
30 Jul 2009, 3:59 pm
The American Arbitration Association released an announcement following the settlement between the Minnesota Attorney General and the National Arbitration Forum stating "it would stop participating in debt collection forced arbitration proceedings until new guidelines are established" (AAJ, Axelrod and Lorenzi, 7/22) American Association for Justice Senior VP of Public Affairs, Linda Lipsen, said, "it has become clear that Congress must… [read post]
20 Oct 2006, 10:36 am
While very few of them actually know it, courts would say that tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans have "agreed" that if they ever have a dispute against various powerful corporations, that their dispute will be decided by an organization named The National Arbitration Forum (or "NAF"). [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 6:00 am by Beth Graham
Whether these rules apply in the arbitral forum, however, is unclear, at best. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 11:22 am
by Deepak Gupta The Minnesota Attorney General today filed a major lawsuit against the Minnesota-based National Arbitration Forum (NAF), one of the nation's largest and most controversial arbitral forums. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 1:45 pm
In its cover story this week, BusinessWeek offers up a lengthy critique of the National Arbitration Forum, one of the nation â [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 3:17 am by webmaster
  Further, FIA Card Services agreed to not arbitrate collections disputes with California consumers for two years, and to stop using the notoriously anti-consumer National Arbitration Forum for five years. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 11:51 am by Beth Graham
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has once again ordered an employer to stop “[m]aintaining and/or enforcing a mandatory arbitration policy that requires employees, as a condition of employment, to waive the right to maintain class or collective actions in all forums, whether arbitral or judicial. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 3:40 pm
Earlier this month, the National Arbitration Forum, which helps resolve disputes between credit-card companies and their customers, came under fire for allegedly favoring credit-card companies over consumers. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 3:56 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
As such, it found that the nursing home did not mean that only the National Arbitration Forum could arbitrate agreements. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 4:55 am by Dr. Ferris Nesheiwat
The QICA is an optional forum for commercial arbitration, offering an appropriate mechanism to resolve disputes among national companies themselves or between national companies and other foreign companies. [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 9:16 pm by Jacob Katz Cogan
The Institute for Transnational Arbitration has issued a call for papers for its First Annual Winter Forum, to be held February 2-3, 2012, in San Francisco. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 8:05 pm
Illinois Appellate Court Holds Motion to Compel Arbitration of Individual Claims in Class Action Complaint Alleging Violations of Various Consumer Protection Laws, based on Arbitration Clause Containing Class Action Waiver, Properly Denied because Agreement Required Disputes be Heard by National Arbitration Forum which no Longer Conducted Consumer Arbitrations Plaintiffs filed a putative class action in Illinois state court against Gateway,… [read post]
15 Aug 2009, 9:02 am
After Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued and won a consent agreement with the National Arbitration Forum, the campaign against pre-dispute arbitration -- led by the trial bar and "consumer" activists -- continues to score successes. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 11:26 am
Michael Cline, which includes the National Arbitration Forum. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 3:35 am by Victoria VanBuren
When LoanPoint USA moved to compel arbitration of the suit pursuant to the above arbitration clause, Edwards claimed that the arbitration clause in her loan agreement with LoanPoint USA was invalid and unenforceable due to unconscionability and due to impossibility because the named arbitrator, the National Arbitration Forum (the NAF), was no longer available. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 4:26 am
National Union argued that irrespective of whether state law was complied with, the forum and arbitration provision of the policies should be enforced because the FAA preempts state statutes referring to both judicial forums and administrative agencies. [read post]