Dorsey Senior Counsel and International Arbitration and Litigation Practice Group Co-Leader Richard Silberberg was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article discussing the Supreme Court's recent arbitration ruling. Responding to the unsurprising ruling in the Bissonnette v. Le Page Bakeries Park St., LLC case, Richard stated that the possibility of an employer encouraging a transportation worker to arbitrate under state law "remains a potentially viable option for an employer in circumstances" where the employee is exempted from the federal mandate. "However," he added, "the circumstances under which the state law option is available remain uncertain in the absence of further judicial guidance."
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Richard recently wrote an article published on the College of Commercial Arbitrators blog. For further observations about the decision read the full article on CCArbitrators.org.