Category: Enforcement – Arbitration Agreements

• Consumer Arbitration Enforcement – Arbitration Agreements

  

  Waiving the right to arbitration in class actions. Overview of recent decisions from the First, Third, and Seventh Circuits

  Under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), 9 U.S.C. § 3, if a suit is brought in any U.S. court upon an issue referable to arbitration, a party may petition the court to stay the trial of such an action until the arbitration has been had in accordance with the agreement,…

  September 15, 2026
• Commercial Arbitration Enforcement – Arbitration Agreements

  

  Second Circuit: Article II, Section 3 of the New York Convention Is Self-Executing

  In Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s v. 3131 Veterans [1], the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed its precedent that Article II, Section 3 of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”) is not self-executing, which was established in 1995 in Stephens v. American…

  May 19, 2025