Grover Cleveland. . United States 1888 The United States federal government passed the Arbitration Act of 1888 on 1 October 1888 to legislate the government's role in railroad labor disputes, thus setting a precedent...

In United States law, the Federal Arbitration Act is a statute that provides for judicial facilitation of private dispute resolution through arbitration. It appears that the Federal Arbitration Act was intended to apply only in federal courts, but...

As we have previously written, the Federal Arbitration Act can be used in almost any kind of dispute, if the dispute involves "commerce" and as I previously pointed out, the courts have interpreted "commerce" to be extremely broad. In this case, the issue...

Are requiring arbitrated discrimination claims right for your company? Many businesses decide that employees must agree to arbitrate employment discrimination claims as a condition of employment. They find that arbitrating discrimination claims is often cheaper, quicker, more private and less arbitrary than...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated the judiciary's role in arbitration, a timesaving alternative to lawsuits that often is used in the corporate world to settle business disputes.In an environmental cleanup case, a lawyer for toy maker Mattel Inc. told the justices that courts have...