Yahoo! couldn’t enforce online forum selection clause 
Published: May 8, 2013
Tags: contracts, e-mail, forum selection clause, Yahoo!
Yahoo! could not enforce an online forum selection clause accepted when a user opened an e-mail account, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
CONTRACTS
Published: April 2, 2013
Tags: contracts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, forum selection clause, U.S. Supreme Court
Should a federal court subject a contractual forum selection clause to a balancing-of-conveniences analysis, even when it designates a specific alternative federal forum?
Court to decide if forum selection clause enforceable
Published: April 2, 2013
Tags: contracts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, forum selection clause, U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a federal court should subject a contractual forum selection clause to a balancing-of-conveniences analysis, even when the clause designates a specific alternative federal forum.
Unhappy ‘U-verse’ customers must arbitrate claims
Published: December 13, 2012
Tags: arbitration, consumer protection, forum selection clause
Customers dissatisfied with their digital telecommunications service were bound by arbitration and forum selection clauses communicated in AT&T “clickwrap” agreements, the 10th Circuit has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
Maritime litigation cruises into gear
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: October 10, 2012
Tags: cruise ship litigation, forum selection clause
Lawsuits against cruise lines continue to sail into court over various injuries to passengers and crew members.
In the most recent high-profile cruise disaster, 32 people were killed when the Costa Concordia capsized off the shore of Italy’s Giglio Island in January. While initially the captain was blamed for being distracted, focus later turned to how dangerously close the ship hugged the coastline and reefs, a common highlight of the cruise experience, and how badly the cruise line and its equipment responded to the emergency.
Benchmarks: Ex-NFL punter gets workers’ comp
Published: August 23, 2012
Tags: forum selection clause, workers' compensation
Maryland’s highest court decided yesterday that former NFL punter Tom Tupa is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for a career-ending back injury suffered in a 2005 pregame warm-up.
Website forum selection clause unenforceable
Published: May 16, 2011
Tags: class action, consumer protection, forum selection clause
The online seller of a male enhancement product could not enforce a forum selection clause on its website without showing that a purchaser actually read it, the New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
Website’s forum selection clause enforceable
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 5, 2010
Tags: consumer protection, forum selection clause
A home remodeling customer is bound by a forum selection clause for a website she used to obtain referrals for building contractors, the Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
Plaintiffs bound by Bahamian hotel forum selection clause
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: August 20, 2009
Tags: forum selection clause
A married couple who resided in New Jersey and were injured during a vacation in the Bahamas are bound by the hotel’s forum selection clause, the 11th Circuit has ruled.
