In some instances, you may be able to sue if you signed a valid arbitration agreement. While courts generally favor arbitration agreements, they will allow you to file a lawsuit if either you didn't understand your rights or your claims fall outside the arbitration provision's scope.

If you are in a contract containing an arbitration clause naming the AAA Rules, you may still be able to bring your dispute in small claims court instead of arbitration, as long as the claim falls within the jurisdiction requirements of the small claims court.

Yes. The Federal Arbitration Act, or FAA, was passed in 1925 in response to a variety of court decisions that held arbitration agreements unenforceable. This law provides that arbitration agreements are generally valid and enforceable.

If the case settles, an arbitration will last around one year. If the case goes to hearing, an arbitration typically takes 16 months.

I have not performed exhaustive research on this, but at least three states have passed laws that expressly apply the statute of limitations to arbitration proceedings. These states are: New York (N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 7502), Georgia (Ga. Code Ann.

As a general rule, only strong evidence of duress or fraud are sufficient to invalidate an arbitration clause.

Generally, it must first be noted that neither the Federal Arbitration Act nor the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act mentions the issue of statutes of limitation. Moreover, only a few state courts have addressed this issue, and there is no unanimity among them.

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In civil cases, statutes of limitations usually range between one and ten years. The statute of limitations varies depending on the cause of action (underlying claim).Multiple courts have held that statutes of limitations simply do not apply in an arbitration proceeding without some contractual provision. Even in FAAgoverned arbitrations, parties may invoke CPLR provisions that do not conflict in order to fill procedural "gaps. A New York State trial judge calls out New York State's longstanding heightened standard of proving the making of an agreement to arbitrate. The default statute of limitations in New York for personal injuries is three years from the date of the injury.

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