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In both cases, following the denials of its motions to compel arbitration, Coinbase filed interlocutory appeals under section 16 of the FAA and sought stays of the district court litigation. December 22, 2022 On December 9, 2022, in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine whether the appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration ousts the district court of jurisdiction to proceed while the appeal is pending. [Extracted from the article]

Impact of the District Court Decision in Saxon v. Southwest Airlines In its decision, the Crooms court noted that "[f]the second time in this case, there is a precedent that is squarely, eerily on point." In Saxon v. Southwest Airlines Co., No. 19-cv-0403 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 8, 2019), Saxon, one of the plaintiffs in Crooms, had filed a putative collective action against Southwest under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Facts in Saxon v. Southwest Airlines Latrice Saxon began work with Southwest Airlines as a unionized ramp agent at Chicago Midway International Airport. [Extracted from the article]

In Morgan, after the court denied the motion for a change of judicial venue, Sundance engaged in additional inconsistent behavior by participating in litigation-related mediation. Sundance's litigation strategy, however, did not materially prejudice Morgan because the parties had not yet begun formal discovery or contested any matters "going to the merits" of the case. In response, Sundance moved in November 2018 to dismiss the Iowa lawsuit, arguing that under the first-to-file rule, a similar lawsuit filed in Michigan barred the Iowa lawsuit. [Extracted from the article]

The court noted that outside the arbitration context, courts routinely enforce appellate waivers in plea agreements, "where the stakes, namely years of lost liberty, are far higher than the monetary award at issue here." Based on the agreement's severability clause, the court found that the appeal waiver was still valid because it did not concern "the essence of the contract." December 16, 2021 Dr. Rami Abumasmah executed an employment agreement with Beckley Oncology Associates (BOA). [Extracted from the article]

Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California distinguished the Monster Energy Co. v. City Beverages, LLC, case and declined to vacate, instead confirming an award issued by JAMS arbitrators. The District Court decision in Levi Strauss v. Aqua offers insight into the meaning of the "repeat player" aspect of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Monster Energy. The disappointed party (Aqua) sought vacatur on "evident partiality" grounds "because two of the JAMS arbitrators were undisclosed shareholders in JAMS and because JAMS engaged in undisclosed non-trivial business dealings" with the successful party in the arbitration, Levi Strauss & Co. [Extracted from the article]