We previously wrote about an Illinois federal district court order requiring Samsung to pay about $4 million in arbitration fees in connection with 35,000 individual arbitration demands filed as part of a “mass arbitration” and the Seventh Circuit’s subsequent stay of that order after Samsung appealed. The Seventh Circuit has now decided the appeal—in favor of Samsung—an important ruling that may help level a mass arbitration playing field that heretofore has been tilted heavily in favor of the consumers.… Continue Reading