OUR NEUTRALS
Honorable Nelson A. Diaz (Ret.) First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Temple, JD 1972; St. John's U., BS 1969 FULL BIO
 —Robert J. Grey, Jr., Former President, American Bar Association In a message to the American Bar Association membership entitled Striving for a Just Solution, president Robert J. Grey Jr. encourages legal professionals to help eliminate the inefficiencies of traditional courtroom trials:
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TODAY IN ADR
/ September 5, 2008
A federal district court in Illinois dismissed a class action lawsuit brought against a wireless service provider because the parties had entered into an arbitration agreement that contained a class waiver barring class-wide proceedings. The Court upheld the class waiver because the non-drafting party had a "meaningful opportunity" to reject the contract.
In Crandall v. AT & T Mobility, LLC, No. 07-750, 2008 WL 2796752 (S.D. Ill. July 18, 2008), Crandall and another AT&T customer (collectively, Customers) brought a class action lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that AT&T was liable for statutory and common law fraud for failing to inform customers that a company merger would not require them to buy new phones... FULL STORY
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