dispute

(noun)

An argument or disagreement.

Related Terms

Examples of dispute in the following topics:

  • Kashmir and Territorial Disputes

  • Arbitration

    • Arbitration, a form of alternative dispute resolution, is a legal technique for the resolution of disputes outside the courts, where the parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons by whose decision they agree to be bound.
    • In other words, the parties' agree to submit disputes to binding resolution by arbitrators, usually by including a provision for the arbitration of future disputes in their contract.
    • The 1899 and 1907 Hague Conferences addressed arbitration as a mechanism for resolving state-to-state disputes, leading to the adoption of the Hague Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.
    • For example, in 1903, arbitration resolved a dispute over the Canada-Alaska border.
    • Arbitration can be an important tool in solving interstate disputes.

  • Resolving Conflicts

    • The judiciary also provides a mechanism for the resolution of disputes.
    • More narrowly, dispute resolution is the process of resolving disputes between parties.
    • Some disputes need the coercive power of the state to enforce a resolution.
    • The most common form of judicial dispute resolution is litigation.
    • Disputants may mediate disputes in a variety of domains, such as commercial, legal, diplomatic, workplace, community, and family matters.

  • The Mexican Borderlands

    • Mexico and the Republic of Texas engaged in an ongoing border dispute for several years that eventually led to the Mexican-American War.
    • The U.S. thus inherited Texas' border dispute with Mexico.
    • The resulting dispute among Texas, the federal government, and New Mexico Territory was resolved in the Compromise of 1850.
    • There was an ongoing border dispute between the Republic of Texas and Mexico prior to annexation.
    • Examine how land disputes ultimately led to the territorial expansion of the United States

  • Resolving Disagreements

    • Labor arbitration has been used as an alternative to strikes to resolve labor disputes for more than a century.
    • Arbitration has been used as a means of resolving labor disputes for more than a century.
    • Labor organizations in the United States, such as the National Labor Union, called for arbitration as early as 1866 as an alternative to strikes to resolve disputes over the wages, benefits and other rights that workers enjoy.
    • Governments have also relied on arbitration to resolve particularly large labor disputes, such as the Coal Strike of 1902.
    • Labor arbitration comes in two varieties: interest arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes about the terms to be included in a new contract when the parties are unable to agree, and grievance arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes over the interpretation and application of a collective bargaining agreement.

  • Peace

    • Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage.
    • Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the belief that international disputes should be peacefully resolved.
    • Pragmatic pacifism holds that the costs of war and inter-personal violence are so substantial that better ways of resolving disputes must be found.

  • Norris–La Guardia Act

    • ., in which, in an opinion authored by Justice Owen Roberts, the Court held that the act meant to prohibit employers from proscribing the peaceful dissemination of information concerning the terms and conditions of employment by those involved in an active labor dispute, even when such dissemination occurs on employer property.
    • The Norris–LaGuardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) was a 1932 United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions.
    • It also established as United States law that employees should be free to form unions without employer interference, and also withdrew from the federal courts jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes.
    • Sanitary Grocery Co., in which the Court held that the Act prohibits employers from barring the peaceful dissemination of information concerning the terms and conditions of employment by those involved in an active labor dispute, even when such dissemination occurs on employer property.

  • Pinckney's Treaty

    • Among other things, the treaty ended the first phase of the West Florida Controversy, a dispute between the two nations over the boundaries of the Spanish colony of West Florida.
    • The boundary of Florida had been in dispute since the British had expanded the territory of the Florida colonies while it was in their possession.
    • When France then sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803, disputes arose again between Spain and the United States regarding which parts of West Florida Spain had ceded to France.
    • These disputes would, in turn, determine which parts of West Florida were now U.S. property versus Spanish territory and would greatly affect the Jeffersonian administration.

  • Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine

    • It includes the territorial disputes between Connecticut and its neighbors during that time period.
    • It does not show Connecticut's western land claims and dispute with Pennsylvania.

  • Facilitating Private-Voluntary Associations

    • Government not only makes enforceable agreements possible but it provides neutral judges to resolve disputes about such agreements.
    • Some parties bypass the judge by jointly sending disputes to an arbitrator, but the courts are always available when less extreme measures fail.