That the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), state arbitration statutes and courts generally favor arbitration provisions in contracts is well-recognized. But what if the contract containing the ...
In North American Fire Ultimate Holdings, LP v. Alan Doorly, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the restrictive covenants included in an incentive unit grant agreement were unenforceable when ...
Few industries promise rapid growth equal to that of the cannabis industry, with one study projecting the industry could reach $30 billion in annual sales by 2025. This growth continues to accelerate ...
The justices said the mandatory arbitration clause was confusing because of the way it used the terms arbitration and mediation interchangeably. The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a provision ...
President Biden, on July 9, 2021, signed an executive order that, amongst other things, asked several federal agencies to adopt regulations that would in effect make non-compete agreements ...
Sellers want the protection of contract clauses—like disclaimers and mandatory arbitration—but are leery of offending buyers with them. So they sometimes obscure these clauses in hopes that buyers won ...
That infamous phrase that every AV contractor has encountered in their careers at least once while working a design-bid-build project: “AV contractor is responsible for a complete system.” But those ...
Contracts written by employers and landlords often result in second parties—employees and tenants—facing unfair terms because these documents contain unreasonable or ambiguous clauses, leaving the ...
A Lackawanna County judge ruled Friday that North American Partners in Anesthesia’s contract language barring medical workers from working at area hospitals under a new contractor is unenforceable, an ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Lawyers for Rhode Island’s capital city have told a Superior Court judge they believe the city’s current firefighters’ union contract is invalid, arguing that the Providence ...