Posts Tagged ‘mandatory’

More on how arbitration screws consumers from Elizabeth Warren


More on how arbitration screws consumers from Elizabeth Warren. Have You Already Lost? | TPMCafé

National Arbitration Forum thinks courts should just rubber stamp arbitration awards


National Arbitration Forum basically offers a rubber stamp to debt collectors already, and they argue that courts should turn their awards into court judgments without looking too closely.
Are courts unreasonably tossing out arbitration awards? Nope. NAF is just advocating for its clients, the debt collectors, who have no proof of the debts on which they [...]

Mandatory binding arbitration sucks (say 81% of Americans)


81% of Americans polled in a recent study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce disapproved of mandatory binding arbitration. This is the corporation-friendly, tie-your-hands arbitration that is written into most of the consumer contracts we sign every day for credit cards, cell phones, etc.
So maybe it is time for Congress to get going and [...]