Judge Daniels Confirms Citi’s Defeat of $4 Billion Arbitration Claim Brought...
Judge Daniels today confirmed a take-nothing arbitration award in Citi’s favor in a case brought by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which invested $7.5 billion in Citi and claimed losses exceeding...
View ArticleJudge Hellerstein: Mexican Court Violated “Basic Fairness” in Attempting to...
In an opinion today, Judge Hellerstein confirmed a nearly $400 million arbitration award in favor of “COMMISA,” an affiliate the Houston-based contracting firm KBR, against “PEP,” a subsidiary of...
View ArticleSDNY Blog Returns as Steptoe Blog
The SDNY Blog is relaunching as a publication of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. We expect to post several times a week on decisions and other developments in the Southern District of New York. You can...
View ArticleNFL to Second Circuit: Deflategate “Should Not Have Been A Close Case”
The NFL yesterday filed its opening brief in the “Deflategate” appeal. The introduction claims that Judge Berman did not give Commissioner Goodell appropriate deference when he reversed Tom Brady’s...
View ArticleTom Brady’s Deflategate Appeal Brief Focuses on Bargained-For Policy that...
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and the NFL Player’s Association filed their appeal brief yesterday with the Second Circuit, responding to the initial brief filed by the NFL. The brief from Brady and...
View ArticleNFL DeflateGate Reply: Policy of “Fines” for Equipment Violations Is Not...
The NFL filed its reply brief in the DeflateGate appeal yesterday. As we previously reported, Tom Brady’s opposition brief focused on the fact that the NFL’s written policies for players state that...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Sides With NFL in DeflateGate Appeal
In a decision today, the Second Circuit, by a 2-1 vote, reversed Judge Berman’s ruling in the DeflateGate case, effectively reinstating Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for his role in deflating...
View ArticleOn Heels of Inquiry Into Potential Litigation Misconduct, Uber CEO Moves to...
Yesterday — just hours after Judge Rakoff ordered broad discovery from Uber and its in-house counsel regarding potentially improper investigative techniques — Uber’s CEO moved to compel arbitration in...
View ArticleRoger Ailes Petitions to Compel Arbitration of Gretchen Carlson’s Sex...
Fox News Chair Roger Ailes filed a petition in the SDNY today seeking to compel arbitration of sex discrimination and harassment claims that Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox anchor, filed in New Jersey...
View ArticleJudge Rakoff Rules That Uber’s Customer Arbitration Clause Is Not Conspicuous...
In an opinion today, Judge Rakoff denied a motion to compel arbitration of antitrust claims against Uber’s CEO because he found that the arbitration clause was too concealed for the plaintiff to have...
View ArticleJudge Rakoff Stays Antitrust Action Against Uber Pending Appeal Over...
As part of the ongoing Uber antitrust litigation, Judge Rakoff granted today the defendants’ request to stay the proceeding pending an interlocutory appeal of his prior order denying defendants’ motion...
View ArticleJudge Furman: Arbitrator’s Criminal Conviction During Case Does Not Void...
In an opinion yesterday, Judge Furman upheld an arbitration award worth over $200 million in favor of a company affiliated with Israeli businessman Lev Leviev, and against his former partners in a...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Reverses Judge Rakoff, Finds Uber Arbitration Clause is...
As part of the ongoing Uber antitrust litigation, the Second Circuit yesterday reversed Judge Rakoff’s earlier ruling that the arbitration clause in Uber’s terms of service was not enforceable (see our...
View ArticleJudge Rakoff Bemoans “Factual and Legal Fictions” Underlying Enforcement of...
In an opinion today in the Uber antitrust case, which was on remand from the Second Circuit (see our prior coverage here), Judge Rakoff sent the case to arbitration based on the “Terms of Service”...
View ArticleJudge Vyskocil: New York Law, Not Jewish Law, Governs Whether Parties Agreed...
In an opinion Monday, Judge Vyskocil denied a motion to force a partnership dispute over a medical practice to be arbitrated in a Jewish court (referred to in the opinion as either a “beis din” or...
View ArticleJudge Rakoff: Arbitrator’s Joke About “Fearing” Uber Does Not Justify...
In an opinion Monday, Judge Rakoff refused to vacate an antitrust arbitration ruling in Uber’s favor, even though the arbitrator joked at one point: “I must say I act out of fear. My fear is if I ruled...
View ArticleOn Heels of Inquiry Into Potential Litigation Misconduct, Uber CEO Moves to...
Yesterday — just hours after Judge Rakoff ordered broad discovery from Uber and its in-house counsel regarding potentially improper investigative techniques — Uber’s CEO moved to compel arbitration in...
View ArticleRoger Ailes Petitions to Compel Arbitration of Gretchen Carlson’s Sex...
Fox News Chair Roger Ailes filed a petition in the SDNY today seeking to compel arbitration of sex discrimination and harassment claims that Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox anchor, filed in New Jersey...
View ArticleJudge Rakoff Rules That Uber’s Customer Arbitration Clause Is Not Conspicuous...
In an opinion today, Judge Rakoff denied a motion to compel arbitration of antitrust claims against Uber’s CEO because he found that the arbitration clause was too concealed for the plaintiff to have...
View ArticleJudge Rakoff Stays Antitrust Action Against Uber Pending Appeal Over...
As part of the ongoing Uber antitrust litigation, Judge Rakoff granted today the defendants’ request to stay the proceeding pending an interlocutory appeal of his prior order denying defendants’ motion...
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