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Sitcomm Arbitration Association

Innovated Holdings, Inc, better known under the trade name Satcomm Arbitration Association, is a "pirate" arbitration company located in Wyoming and associated with the sovereign citizen movement. It has been identified as a "sham" by courts, having filed "fraudulent arbitration awards in several states", and the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism characterises it as "the largest promoter of fraudulent arbitration". A 2021 ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a District Court finding vacating an award made by Satcomm on the grounds that there was no evidence of a valid arbitration agreement between the parties. In another case, United States Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter described Satcomm's modus operandi thus: an extremely troubling fraudulent “arbitration” scheme whereby a supposed aggrieved party (Mr.

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