Videos/Webinars
This page features links to several video interviews that the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (“CPR”) conducted of Loree Law Firm principal Philip J. Loree Jr., and our good friends, arbitrator, former trial judge, and fellow arbitration-law practitioner, Richard D. Faulkner; and Professor Angela Downes, Assistant Director of Experiential Education and Professor of Practice Law at the University of North Texas-Dallas College of Law. The interviews concern various controversial arbitration issues, mostly pertaining to matters the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) has been asked to hear, will hear, or has heard. Our good friend Russ Bleemer, Editor of CPR’s newsletter, Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation, CPR’s international ADR newsletter published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., conducted the interviews.
In addition to the CPR interviews, this page features a link to a September 10, 2024, Federalist Society webinar concerning SCOTUS arbitration-law cases the Court decided in 2024, and some related arbitration-law developments. Loree, Faulkner, and highly-regarded trial attorney, trial attorney instructor, and former pro basketball player, Charles “Chuck” Bennett, were the speakers. Loree, Faulkner, and Bennett discussed in detail the Bissonnette, Spizzirri, and Coinbase v. Suski, decisions, as well as “infinite arbitration clauses,” subject matter jurisdiction, and a once highly publicized (but now voluntarily resolved) arbitration dispute concerning the Walt Disney Company. Chuck provided the unique perspective of a trial lawyer thoroughly versed in arbitration matters. You can view that webinar here and read our post about it here.
Links to each of these each of the video conference interviews, the webinar, and related Arbitration Law Forum posts, are below.
- September 10, 2024 | SCOTUS Arbitration Law Cases Decided in 2024 (SCOTUS 2023 Term) | Federalist Society Webinar Featuring Charles Bennett, Richard D. Faulkner, and Philip J. Loree Jr.: On September 10, 2024, Faulkner; Chuck Bennett, and Loree participated in a Federalist Society webinar entitled “Recent Supreme Court Decisions: Implications for the Business World.” The webinar focused on the three arbitration-law decisions the United States Supreme Court decided in 2024: (a) Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, 601 U.S. 246 (2024); (b) Smith v. Spizzirri, 601 U.S. 472 (2024); and (c) Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski, 602 U.S. ___ (2024). The webinar was sponsored by the Federalist Society’s Litigation Practice Group, and hosted by Caroline Bryant, Associate Director, Practice Groups, The Federalist Society, who introduced the panel’s members and otherwise ensured things ran smoothly. Bennett’s, Faulkner’s, and Philip J. Loree Jr.’s Federalist Society bios are here, here, and here.
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May 29, 2024 | SCOTUS Arbitration Law Cases Decided in 2024 (SCOTUS 2023 Term) | CPR Interviews Downes, Faulkner, and Loree: On May 29, 2024, CPR interviewed Professor Downes, Loree, and Faulkner about the three arbitration-law decisions the United States Supreme Court decided in 2024: (a) Bissonnette; (b) Spizzirri; and (c) Coinbase v. Suski. The panel also discussed what one might expect on the arbitration front from the 2024 SCOTUS Term, Samsung’s mass arbitration case in the Seventh Circuit, and recent, controversial arbitration awards rendered against a major U.S. retail pharmacy company and their implications. You can watch and listen to that interview here and read our post about it here.
- November 10, 2023 | SCOTUS Grant of Certiorari in Coinbase v. Suski: On November 10, 2023, CPR interviewed Professor Downes, Faulkner, and Loree about SCOTUS’s grant of certiorari in Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski, No. 23-3 (U.S.). You can watch the video-conference interview here and read the post here.
- October 24, 2023 | SCOTUS Grant of Certiorari in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, No. 23-51 (U.S.): On October 24, 2023, CPR interviewed Professor Downes, Faulkner, and Loree, about the Bissonnette certiorari grant, its implications and how SCOTUS might decide the case. You can watch the video-conference interview here.
- July 3, 2023 | SCOTUS Decision in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski, 599 U. S. 736 (2023): On July 3, 2023, CPR interviewed Professor Downes, Faulkner, and Loree concerning SCOTUS’s June 23, 2023 decision in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski, 599 U. S. 736 (2023). You can watch the video interview here and read the post here.
- November 23, 2021 | Foreign Arbitration Proceedings | Federal Subject Matter Jurisdiction: CPR interviewed Professor Downes, Loree, and Faulkner about three hot arbitration-law topics then pending before SCOTUS: (a) the Court’s grant of certiorari in Morgan v. Sundance Inc., 21-328; (b) the Court’s grant of certiorari in two cases arising under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, which concerned whether a foreign arbitration panel is a “foreign or international tribunal” to which a U.S. Court can provide assistances by ordering discovery in the U.S.; and (c) the Court’s oral argument in Badgerow v. Walters, No. 20-1143, which concerned the issue whether the district court had federal subject matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an award based on whether the underlying, arbitrated dispute would, if brought in court, fall under the court’s federal question jurisdiction. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, click here. Read the Arbitration Law Forum post here. To read about how those cases were ultimately decided by SCOTUS, click here.
- January 25, 2021 | Schein II | Arbitrability | Delegation Agreements | Incorporation by Reference of Arbitration Provider Rules | SCOTUS Order Dismissing Certiorari as Improvidently Granted: CPR interviewed Loree, Professor Downes, and Faulkner about the January 25, 2021 SCOTUS Order dismissing certiorari as improvidently granted in Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc., No. 19-963, and a same-day order declining to hear Piersing v. Domino’s Pizza Franchising LLC, 20-695. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, click here.
- December 9, 2020 | Schein II | Arbitrability | Delegation Agreements | Incorporation by Reference of Arbitration Provider Rules | SCOTUS Oral Argument: CPR interviewed Loree, Professor Downes, and Faulkner about the December 8, 2020 SCOTUS oral argument in Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc., No. 19-963. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, click here.
- December 3, 2020 | Schein II | Arbitrability | Delegation Agreements | Upcoming SCOTUS Oral Argument: CPR interviewed Loree, Professor Downes, and Faulkner about the then upcoming December 8, 2020, SCOTUS oral argument in Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc., No. 19-963 (SCOTUS case page is at ). To watch and listen to the video conference interview, click here.
- June 29, 2020 | Award Vacated | Evident Partiality: CPR interviewed Loree and Faulkner about SCOTUS’s denial of certiorari in the Monster Energy Co. v. City Beverages, LLC, 940 F.3d 1130 (9th Cir. 2019) evident partiality case. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, click here. Read the Arbitration Law Forum post here.
- June 15, 2020 | Arbitrability | Delegation Agreements: CPR interviewed Loree and Faulkner about SCOTUS’s grant of certiorari in the Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc. case. To watch the video conference interview, click here. Read the Arbitration Law Forum post here.
- June 9, 2020 | Federal Arbitration Act Section 2 | Unconscionability | Federal Arbitration Act Preemption of State Law: CPR interviewed Loree and Faulkner about SCOTUS’s denial of certiorari in OTO LLC v. Kho, a controversial decision of the California Supreme Court, which held that an arbitration agreement was, in the circumstances, unconscionable to the extent that it purported to require an employee to arbitrate wage claims. To watch the video conference interview, click here. Read the Arbitration Law Forum post here.
- June 1, 2020 | Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards | Arbitrability | Nonsignatories: CPR interviews Loree and Faulkner about the U.S. Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision in GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp. v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC. In an opinion authored by Associate Justice Clarence Thomas the Court held that the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards did not conflict with domestic equitable estoppel doctrines that permit the enforcement of arbitration agreements by nonsignatories. Associate Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor wrote a concurring opinion. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, click here. Read the Arbitration Law Forum post here.
- May 20, 2020 | Delegation Agreements | Incorporation-by-Reference of Provider Rules: CPR interviews Loree and Faulkner about a two-part article they wrote about the parties’ petition and cross-petition for certiorari in the Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc. case. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, click here. Read the Arbitration Law Forum post here.
