Mediator Mallory Stevens sends the provocative summary of a recent meeting of the World Mediation Organization, via Maria Volpe's ListServe (reproduced with Ms. Stevens' permission):...
The Ninth Circuit, and California courts in particular, have been very strict in maintaining the confidentiality and inadmissibility of statements made during mediation. Two recent cases have allowed such statements to be admitted, on interesting grounds. An Arizona District Court decision allowing mediation statements was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit...