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Mediation and Arbitration News

• Bloomberg Seeks New Law on Penalizing Teachers in Sex-Abuse Cases
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wants to rewrite a New York state law to give school officials the power to overrule an arbitrator on whether to fire or penalize teachers. […]
• Baseball Fires Arbitrator Who Overturned Braun Ban
  Shyam Das, who overturned Ryan Braun’s 50-game suspension for a positive drug test, was fired, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the decision. […]
• Class Actions Face Hurdle in 2011 Supreme Court Ruling
  Last year, the Supreme Court said that corporations could write contracts that blocked class-action lawsuits. Now we are seeing that ruling’s effects. […]
• Australia’s Richest Woman to Battle Children in Open Court
  Gina Rinehart lost an appeal seeking private arbitration for the dispute over her family trust, which three of her children charge she is mishandling. […]
• Teacher Argued Double Standard in Successful 2010 Fight to Keep Job
  In his defense, an educator in Washington Heights showed a picture of the schools chancellor at the time in a similarly affectionate pose with students. […]
• Found to Have Misbehaved, but Still Teaching in New York City
  The city wanted to fire more than a dozen teachers accused of inappropriate behavior, but in most cases it has been overruled by an arbitrator who opted for a milder penalty. […]