American Arbitration Association Contrasted with Trade Association Arbitration

Commercial arbitration's different types -- such as the contrast between the AAA and trade associations -- are discussed in my recent article: Stephen J. Ware, Private Ordering and Commercial Arbitration: Lasting Lessons from Mentschikoff, 2019 J. Disp. Resol. (2019).

It revisits the classic work of Soia Mentschikoff who detailed a
thoroughgoing form of private ordering in trade association arbitration that
privatizes all three of:

(1) lawmaking (through arbitrators applying industry trade rules rather than
governmental law, and through the precedential effect of arbitrators’ reasoned
awards);
(2) adjudication (through arbitration procedures quite different from courts’
rules of procedure and evidence); and
(3) enforcement of the adjudicator’s decision (through private sanctions
culminating in expulsion from the association).

By contrast, she shows that the general commercial arbitration typical of the
AAA often includes only the second of these three forms of privatization.

A summary from Beth Graham at DisputingBlog.

11th Circuit Denies Motion to Compel Arbitration of Telephone Consumer Protection Act Claim

In Gamble v. New England Auto Finance, Inc. the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a loan agreement’s arbitration clause did not cover the plaintiff’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim. Plaintiff Gamble and New England Auto Finance, Inc. (“NEAF”) formed the auto loan agreement which requires arbitration of disputes that “arise[] from or relate[] to this Agreement or the Motor Vehicle securing this Agreement.” After the loan was paid off, NEAF began sending Gamble text messages and persisted even after Gamble requested NEAF stop, so Gamble brought a TCPA claim.

The Court refused to grant NEAF’s motion to compel arbitration because “Gamble’s TCPA claim ...arises not from the Loan Agreement or any breach of it, but from post-agreement conduct that allegedly violates a separate, distinct federal law.” The Eleventh Circuit pointed out that Gamble could bring a TCPA claim even if no agreement at all existed between Gamble and NEAF. Since Gamble paid off the loan and the texts did not arise from or relate to anything contained in the loan agreement the scope of the arbitration provision did not include Gamble’s claim.

Today's #Arbitration Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee

Video of the hearing with the following witnesses:

Mr. Kevin Ziober
Navy Reservist
Newport Beach , CA

Professor Myriam Gilles
Professor Of Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
Yeshiva University
New York, NY

Mr. Alan S. Kaplinsky
Partner
Ballard Spahr LLP
Philadelphia , PA

Mr. F. Paul Bland, Jr.
Executive Director
Public Justice
Washington , DC

Mr. Alan Carlson
Italian Colors Restaurant
Oakland , CA

Mr. Victor E. Schwartz
Co-Chair, Public Policy Practice Group
Shook, Hardy, & Bacon LLP
Washington , DC