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California's supreme court first reasserts an arbitrator power…
Author(s) -
Hunt Jillian Lee,
Bleemer Russ,
Klimpl Timothy
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
alternatives to the high cost of litigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1549-4381
pISSN - 1549-4373
DOI - 10.1002/alt.20241
Subject(s) - supreme court , law , mediation , statute , confidentiality , power (physics) , subpoena , political science , state (computer science) , sociology , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , algorithm
Two significant opinions on mediation confidentiality from opposite coasts emerged this summer. Alternatives' editor Russ Bleemer, and Timothy Klimpl, of New York, analyze the result in the closely watched California Supreme Court Simmons v. Ghaderi case, which provides strong support for the state's mediation protection statutes. Confidentiality is on shakier ground in the hands of New York's top court, with details provided about the Court's affirmance of a subpoena for a mediator's testimony and records. Jillian Lee Hunt, of New York, looks at another California Supreme Court case on the limits of arbitrator power, and there is a report on a United Kingdom survey revealing an insufficient use of employment mediation.