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Honorable Lawrence W. Crispo (Ret.)
Los Angeles Superior Court
Loyola Law, JD 1961; Loyola Marymount, BS 1956
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—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: “Innovative, creative...

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TODAY IN ADR / May 14, 2008

 

A federal district court in New Jersey honored a choice-of-law provision in a wireless service contract and thus applied Virginia law in determining that the arbitration agreement was enforceable even though it contained a class waiver barring class-wide proceedings. In rejecting a finding of unconscionability and upholding the class waiver, the Court noted that wireless services are not the sort of "necessity" that gives rise to unconscionability concerns.

In Halprin v. Verizon Wireless Services, LLC, No. 07-4015, 2008 WL 961239 (D.N.J. Apr. 8, 2008), Verizon provided wireless phone services to Halprin under a contract that required all disputes to be resolved through individual arbitration. The contract also contained a Virginia choice-of-law provision...

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