. Employees had hoped the Court would find that mandatory individual arbitration provisions are illegal because Section 7 of the … Court, however, held that the Federal Arbitration Act requires arbitration provisions to be enforced as written. While the … disputes that are diverted from courts to individual arbitration – including workplace discrimination and sexual harassment, as …

A settlement is an agreement between parties to a dispute. In everyday parlance and in academic scholarship, settlement … winner and announces a score. The “trial versus settlement” trope, however, represents a false choice; viewing settlement … and often does work. In this article, we describe and defend a much richer concept of settlement, amounting in effect to a …

-of-court settlement. One set of issues addressed is positive (or descriptive) in nature. Under what conditions will someone decide to file …, appeals, contingent fees for attorneys, alternative dispute resolution, class actions, and plea bargaining. …