In the news

September 19, 2002

I'm glad to see that procedure we discuss in class on Wednesday shows up in the news. How Appealing: We have ways to make you mediate

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that a district court has the inherent authority -- in the absence of any authorizing contractual language, statute or court rule -- to order an unwilling party to participate in, and share the costs of, non-binding mediation conducted by a private, for-profit mediator