Videos
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 of our good friend, arbitrator, former trial judge, and fellow arbitration-law practitioner, Richard D. Faulkner, about various controversial arbitration issues pertaining to matters the U.S. Supreme Court 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 video conference interviews.
Links to each of these video conference interviews, and accompanying Arbitration Law Forum blog posts, are below. Most of the links to the interviews also provide access to CPR Speaks blog posts about the topics.
- June 29, 2020 | Award Vacated | Evident Partiality: CPR interviews Loree and Faulkner about the U.S. Supreme Court’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 blog post here.
- June 15, 2020 | Arbitrability | Delegation Agreements: CPR interviews Loree and Faulkner about the U.S. Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in the Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, CLICK HERE. Read the blog post here.
- June 9, 2020 | Federal Arbitration Act Section 2 | Unconscionability | Federal Arbitration Act Preemption of State Law: CPR interviews Loree and Faulkner about the U.S. Supreme Court’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 and listen to the video conference interview, CLICK HERE. Read the blog 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 blog 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. To watch and listen to the video conference interview, CLICK HERE. Read the blog post here.