P. Christine Deruelle

P. Christine Deruelle, Robert Clayton Roesch | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

As discussed in Part I of this article (in the August, 2007 issue of the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel),1 the Supreme Court's decision in Green Tree Fin. Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003), spurred the implementation of new procedural rules applicable to class arbitrations and led to a surge in...

P. Christine Deruelle, Robert Clayton Roesch | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Before the Supreme Court's decision in Green Tree Finan. Corp. v. Bazzle, 123 S.Ct. 2402 (2003), the possibility of having compulsory class or consolidated arbitration was an issue rarely contemplated by practitioners and clients, since class or consolidated arbitration proceedings were almost...