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Arbitration clauses, prejudicial delays, and one justice’s contract-law “nightmare”

SCOTUSBlog

It further argues “default” occurs only when a party “violates a clear legal rule or causes prejudice” to the other party – a definition that Justice Elena Kagan suggested was “a bit made up.”. Much of the discussion during oral argument concerned whether and when to apply state contract law to questions arising under the FAA.

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Supreme Court grants certiorari in arbitration clause case

JURIST

. ” The collective of professors asserts that the Eighth Circuit’s ruling “ignored state contract law and misapplied this Court’s repeated holdings that arbitration clauses should be placed on equal footing with other contracts.”

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Legal Jargon – Plain English or Utter Drivel?

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