John Allen Chalk, Sr., Editor
“The Arbitration Newsletter” Editions
October – 2023
"Watch Your Award Language!"
August – 2023
"CLARITY REGARDING DELEGATION"
July – 2023
"BRISTOL-MYERS SQIBB CO. V. NOVARTIS PHARMA AG"
Sept – 2022
"THE TRANSPORTATION WORKER EXEMPTION"
Aug – 2022
"LOSS OF THE RIGHT TO ARBITRATE CLARIFIED"
July – 2022
"THE FAA AND FEDERAL COURT JURISCDICTION"
April – 2022
"NEW EMPLOYEE ELECTRONIC ONBOARDING and PROCEDURAL UNCONSCIONABILITY"
March – 2022
"THE COMPLEX ARBITRATION AGREEMENT"
Jan – 2022
"KEEP THE MOTION TO CONFIRM SIMPLE"
Dec – 2021
"FAA PREEMPTION - A REFRESHER"
Sept – 2021
"NO TRIAL COURT DISCRETION!"
Aug – 2021
"DELEGATE BOLDLY AND SPECIFICALLY"
June- 2021
"ELECTRONIC RECORDS AND SIGNATURES"
April- 2021
"MOTIONS TO COMPEL IN TEXAS TRIAL COURTS"
March- 2021
“CIRCUMSTANCES MAKE A DIFFERENCE“
Dec- 2020
Oct- 2020
“YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR ARBITRATION AND VACATE IT TOO“
Sept – 2020
Aug – 2020
July – 2020
June – 2020
April – 2020
“ARBITRATION OF TEXAS LABOR CODE DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS”
March – 2020
“TO SIGN OR NOT TO SIGN? AND WHY IT MAY NOT MATTER”
Feb – 2020
“WHO DECIDES? TEXAS SUPREME COURT DECISION ON CLASS ARBITRATION”
Sep – 2019
Aug – 2019
Mar – 2019
“TOO PRIMITIVE TO PARTICIPATE?”
Jan – 2019
“TO COMPEL, OR NOT TO COMPEL: THAT IS THE QUESTION”
Jul – 2018
“SIGN THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT!”
Apr – 2018
“ONE SMOOTHIE, WITH A SIDE OF ARBITRATION?”
Mar – 2018
“GAMING THE SYSTEM” Does not Substantially Invoke the Judicial Process
Feb – 2018
“FAA PREEMPTION – One Win, One Loss!”
Nov – 2017
“PARKER v. INTERACTIVE BROKERS LLC, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 8023”
Jun – 2017
“EVIDENT PARTIALITY IN HAWAI’I”
Mar – 2017
“Form of Substance (What is Imperfect Execution)”
Jan – 2017
“Arbitration Issues At Texas Supreme Court”
Dec – 2016
Oct – 2016
Aug – 2016
“Meeting of the Minds Test: The New Darling of the Anti-Arbitration Forces”
Jul – 2016
“Arbitration Presumptions and Due Process”
Jun – 2016
“Only Enumerated Vacatur Grounds for TAA Arbitration Awards”
Apr – 2016
“Be Careful of Amendments to Arbitration Agreement”
Mar – 2016
Feb – 2016
“Disclosure of Brain Tumor Diagnosis?”
Jan – 2016
“Pre-emption or Consumer Protection?”
Oct – 2015
“Non-Signatories Must Arbitrate”
Jun – 2015
“How to Handle the Non-Paying Arbitration Party Under AAA’s Commercial Arbitration Rules”
May – 2015
“Arbitration, Nursing Homes, and the Business of Insurance”
Apr – 2015
Mar – 2015
“Broad Scope Arbitration Agreement”
Feb – 2015
“Texas Vacatur for Exceeded Powers”
Jan – 2015
“Waiver of Arbitration Revisited”
Dec – 2014
“State Court Hostility to Arbitration”
Nov – 2014
“More Commentary of F.A.A. Arbitrability”
Oct – 2014
“Class Arbitration is Arbitrability Question”
Sep – 2014
“Texas Supreme Court Warns About the Misuse of Unconscionability Defense”
Aug – 2014
“Arbitration Clause Construction Vacates $26 Million Award”
Jul – 2014
“Collateral Estoppel and Exceeded Powers”
Jun – 2014
“Reasonable Impression of Partiality – Alive and well in Texas for Evident Partiality FFA Vacatur”
May – 2014
“Support for Muscular Arbitrators”
Apr – 2014
“Standard of Review for Interlocutory Appeals of FAA Cases?”
Mar – 2014
“Infobilling, Inc. v. Transaction Clearing, LLC“
Feb – 2014
“Arbitrator’s Legal Error is not Manifest Disregard”
Jan – 2014
“Manifest Disregard Alive and Well (At Least in the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals)”
Dec – 2013
“Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) Preemption”
Nov – 2013
“Evident Partiality Revisited”
Oct – 2013
“Arbitrator’s Inherent Power to Sanction”
Jun/Jul – 2013
“Judgment Versus Award Interest; State Versus Federal Interest Rates and; The Merger Doctrine”
May – 2013
Apr – 2013
Mar – 2013
“Third Circuit Defines Evident Partiality”
Feb – 2013
Jan – 2013
“The Case of the Missing Comma: Arbitrability and the Trial Court”
Nov – 2012
Jul – 2012
“Amoco D.T. Company et al. v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation, et al.”
Jun – 2012
“Reed v. Florida Metropolitan University, Incorporated (5th Cir. May 18, 2012)”
Apr – 2012
Nov – 2010
“Arbitration Agreements and Statutes of Limitations”
Oct – 2007
“Arbitrability and Unconscionability of Consumer Arbitration Agreement”
Jan – 2007
“Major Change in Evident Partially Vacatur Standard”
Sep – 2006
“Signed Acknowledgment of Receipt Equals Actual Receipt”
Jun – 2006
“Attack the Arbitration Clause not the Contract as a Whole if You Don’t Want to Go to Arbitration”