The VLW Blog

A Loudoun County homeowners association was required to arbitrate a dispute with property owners over whether the owners could install a basketball goal on their property, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today in an unpublished order.
The property owners contended that the dispute was subject to arbitration under the plain language of the declaration for [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today that ab order to compel arbitration can’t be appealed under the Virginia Uniform Arbitration Act.
The issue arose when Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. filed a motion to compel arbitration after an employee filed a state court claim that she had been defamed in a performance evaluation.
Northrop Grumman said e-mails and [...]

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Lawyers’ business clients have used arbitration for years to resolve commercial disputes.
But there’s business, and then, there’s bidness.
Senior U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar had a case in Norfolk federal district court last month, Al-Haddad Commodities Corp. v. Toepfer Int’l Asia PTE Ltd. (VLW 007-3-147), that pitted an international commodities trader against an agricultural commodity [...]

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Poor English skills did not keep two Hispanic union members from being bound by their union contract’s mandatory arbitration clause for complaints of discrimination, the 4th Circuit ruled yesterday in Aleman v. Chugach Support Services (VLW 007-2-070).
The two Hispanic members of a D.C.-area carpenters’ union worked for Chugach Support Services, a construction company that was [...]

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