Players in doping scandal to face Arbitration Court

By natalie • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: International Arbitration
The case of 3 local football players - Ryan Grech, Gilbert Martin and Claude Mattocks - who tested positive for banned substances will be heard in front of the Court of Arbitration for Sport on November 24.

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Mediation works: only 5 strikes

By natalie • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: International Mediation
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 23:48

MEDIATION has prevented workers in 351 firms from going ahead with their decision to strike and as a result, only five worker unions proceeded with their stop-work protest.

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High powered delegation off to Yangon: Chinese mediation being explored

By natalie • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: International Mediation

A high-power Bangladesh delegation, led by Foreign Secretary Md Touhid Hossain, left for Yangon Tuesday night to try to diffuse tensions over gas exploration in disputed waters on the Bay of Bengal.

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Court Grants American Apparel’s Request to Compel Arbitration

By natalie • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Arbitration, Arbitration Cases, Arbitration News

By a MetNews Staff Writer

 This district’s Court of Appeal has granted clothing manufacturer American Apparel Inc.’s petition to compel arbitration under a settlement with a former sales manager who alleged she was sexually harassed by the company’s president.

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Protecting your trademark on the Internet

By natalie • Nov 4th, 2008 • Category: Arbitration News, Mediation News

Astrachan Gunst Thomas

Charles F. Morgan

USA
October 30 2008

More than 10,000 domain name complaints have been handled by the National Arbitration Forum (“NAF”) since 1999 under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”). NAF is an international provider of alternative dispute resolution services approved by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”). Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, NAF can deal quickly, and inexpensively relative to the cost of litigation, with cases where a domain name registrant is charged by a trademark owner with having no legitimate rights to the domain.    

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