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  • The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Federal Arbitration Act protected a binding arbitration clause against more stringent state regulations of arbitration like those adopted in California. Read more at The Los Angeles Times or our own blog post.
  • The Supreme Court also granted a temporary stay of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling, which declared a lesbian's parental rights springing from adoption of three children in Georgia were invalid in Alabama. Read more at SCOTUSblog.