Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Banking Law : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Class Actions, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration |
| Title: | GREEN TREE FIN. CORP. v. BAZZLE |
| Date: | 06/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-634 |
| Summary: | An arbitrator must determine whether contracts between a commercial lender and its customers, containing a clause providing for arbitration of all contract-related disputed, forbid class arbitration under South Carolina law. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law |
| Title: | BENEFICIAL NAT'L BANK v. ANDERSON |
| Date: | 06/02/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-306 |
| Summary: | An action filed in state court, to recover damages from a national bank for allegedly charging excessive interest in violation of both the "common law usury doctrine" and an Alabama usury statute, arose only under federal law and could therefore be removed under 28 U.S.C. section 1441. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration |
| Title: | CITIZENS BANK v. ALAFABCO, INC. |
| Date: | 06/02/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-1295 |
| Summary: | A debt-restructuring agreement had a sufficient nexus with interstate commerce to make an arbitration provision in that agreement enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | BROWN v. LEGAL FOUND. OF WASHINGTON |
| Date: | 03/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1325 |
| Summary: | A state law requiring client funds that could not otherwise generate net earnings for the client be deposited in an "interest on lawyers' trust account" is not a regulatory taking, but requiring that interest on those funds be transferred to a different owner for a legitimate public use could be a per se taking requiring payment of just compensation to the client in some cases. |