Founding AAArbitrators
This arbitrator and biblical character did something that is now a terrible myth in arbitration known as a “compromise award”.
Who is Solomon
ICDR
What is International Centre for Dispute Resolution
This FAAAmous person’s first job after college was at a large bank; her first legal job as a summer associate was at a law firm in that same bank’s building.
Who is Kelly Turner
In 2022, this commercial rule was updated to allow for clarifications in final awards.
What is Commercial R. 52
In Cognac Ferrand v. Mystique Brands, one of the key issues was missed royalty payments to this famous U.S. rapper.
Who is Snoop Dogg
When Juno, Pallas, Athene and Venus disputed who was the most beautiful in the world, the parties agreed to name this royal Shepherd as arbitrator when all other methods of dispute resolution failed.
Who is Paris
AFA
What is Affordable Fee Arrangement
This FAAAmous person served in the U.S. Air Force as military police for 6 years and lived in South Korea, Guam, and Japan during her service.
Who is Kris Benitez
Rule 2 of the Commercial rules (revised in 2022) officially codified the existence of this internal AAA committee that can rule on challenges to appointment, make initial locale determination and decide whether a party has met filing requirements.
What is administrative review council
This Former NBA star was awarded $8.9 million for the unauthorized use of his name in a 2009 grocery store ad. Name this store.
What is Safeway
This arbitrator wrote the rules for the Cook County (Illinois) Law Division’s Mandatory Arbitration Program.
Who is Tom Mulroy
ARC
What is the Administrative Review Council
This FAAAmous person learns the basics of the language of each country she travels to including Chinese, Catalan, Italian, Hawaiian, Irish Gaelic, and is currently learning some Portuguese.
Who is Nerissa Diaz Moisan
This rule to add parties or merge more than one claim together, did not exist in the commercial rules, although it existed in the construction rules.
What is R. 8 – Consolidation and Joinder
This famous Hollywood couple arbitrated their child custody issues in approximately 2020 – one side argued that the arbitrator failed to fully disclose all ties to the other side’s attorneys. It went all the way up the California second district court of appeals, which determined that the arbitrator violated his ethical obligation.
Who are Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
These arbitrators received the 2012 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage awards for their demonstrated political courage and judicial independence in upholding, in the face of popular opposition, the basic freedoms and security guaranteed to all citizens under the Iowa constitution.
Who is Marsha Ternus & Mike Streit
MCF
What is Multi-Case Filing
This FAAAmous person reads 24 books a year.
Who is Iman Hyder-Eliz
This is Svetlana Gitman’s favorite commercial rule (based on 2022 comm rules).
What is R. 34 - Dispositive Motions
This American president’s will from July 1799 calls for arbitrations to resolve disputes among his heirs.
Who was George Washington
This sympathetic monster served as an arbitrator on the AAA roster in 1956.
Who is Boris Karloff
UNCITRAL
What is the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
This President of General Electric in 1926 was the AAA’s first president.
Who was Thomas Burchard
Rule 10 of the Optional Appellate Process states that a party may appeal an underlying award based on these two factors.
What is
1) error of law that is material and prejudicial or
2) determination of fact that are clearly erroneous
The smallest commercial award ever rendered in AAA history (6 cents) was awarded to this American actor, choreographer, dancer and film and stage actor who directed Cabaret and All That Jazz.
Who was Bob Fosse