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• MD Court of Appeals upholds Circuit City's arbitration clause

  - 2006-03-16

  A former Circuit City Stores Inc. employee who filed a sexual discrimination suit against the company in 2003 was bound by an arbitration agreement she signed as part of her job application, the Court of Appeals has held. Five judges on the state's highest court said the agreement, which the...

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• Sixth Circuit's Morrison v. Circuit City Stores, Inc. Opinion Provides Needed Guidance on Enforceability of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements.

  - 2003-04-25

  Concerned with growing jury verdicts, unwanted publicity, and the high costs often associated with litigating claims made against them by their current and former employees, many employers are turning to mandatory arbitration programs as a means of Concerned with growing jury verdicts, unwanted publicity,...

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• Sixth Circuit's Morrison v. Circuit City Stores, Inc. Opinion Provides Needed Guidance on Enforceability of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements.

  - 2003-03-28

  Concerned with growing jury verdicts, unwanted publicity, and the high costs often associated with litigating claims made against them by their current and former employees, many employers are turning to mandatory arbitration programs as a means of Concerned with growing jury verdicts, unwanted publicity,...

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• Sixth Circuit's Morrison v. Circuit City Stores, Inc. Opinion Provides Needed Guidance on Enforceability of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

  BNET - 2003-03-01

  Concerned with growing jury verdicts, unwanted publicity, and the high costs often associated with litigating claims made against them by their current and former employees, many employers are turning to mandatory arbitration programs as a means of resolving employment disputes. Indeed, recent U.S. Supreme Court cases have encouraged the trend...

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• Circuit City Case Provides Little Direction to Drafters of Arbitration Agreements.

  - 2002-04-17

  Originally published in August 2001 Originally published in August 2001

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• Circuit City's Employment Dispute Arbitration Tactics Ruled Unfair.

  - 2002-02-06

  By Alan Cooper, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Alan Cooper, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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• From Gardner to Circuit City: Mandatory arbitration of statutory employment disputes continues

  - 2001-11-01

  The lawfulness of mandatory predispute arbitration clauses for statutory employment disputes continues to fire the public debate between advocates and critics. Public opinion on the subject is still largely divided into two camps: those who believe that mandatory arbitration gives employees a realistic chance to pursue their claims and those...

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• Employee-arbitration agreements can control the risk of litigation.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-08-01

  In the case of Circuit City Stores Inc. v. Adams, the U.S. Supreme Court recently confirmed by a 5-4 majority that arbitration agreements between employers and employees typically may be enforced under the Federal Arbitration Act. The decision should encourage more employers to use arbitration agreements...

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• Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams and EEOC v. Waffle House, Inc.: The Court Addresses the Enforceability of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

  BNET - 2001-08-01

  In its recently completed term, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, reached a decision that is certain to have a significant effect on the enforcement of mandatory arbitration agreements in the non-union employment setting. Agreeing with the overwhelming majority of Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court...

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• Supreme Court decides employment case in favor of arbitration

  - 2001-05-01

  The U.S. Supreme Court in Circuit City Stores v. Adams has ruled that in addition to seamen and railroad workers, only contracts of employment for transportation workers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act. The 5-4 majority, which included Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the decision, Chief Justice William...

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