A poll released by the Defense Research Institute, the voice of lawyers that represent large corporations in lawsuits, shows that 74% of respondents in the poll view mandatory arbitration as unacceptable. The full report of the national survey as well as downloadable graphs and charts can be found here.
The Alliance for Justice has just released a documentary entitled “Lost in the Fine Print.” The documentary is narrated by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
Emily Bazelon describes the order in an article in Slate:
President Obama has signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, an important step forward in the effort to outlaw forced arbitration of employment disputes.
On August 18, 2014, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble, in which the Court affirmed a district court order that denied the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration.
In a recent posting on the Wall Street on Parade, Pamela Martens and Russell Martens describe a book written by Scott Patterson, a Wall Street Journal Reporter describing how the United States Securities Market has become one vast dark pool.
Jenn, a waitress at a chain restaurant, left her job because a male coworker kept verbally and physically abusing her, despite her constant complaints to management.
Take Justice Back, a non-profit working to protect consumers, has issued a work paper on the top 10 myths the U.S. Chamber of Commerce promotes to support Forced Arbitration. Here is a link to the article.
Lina Kahn has written an excellent article on how the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act is depriving citizens of their rights. Here is a link.
In the wake of two U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the past three years, consumers, workers and others harmed by unfair fine print in contracts are increasingly being shut out of the courthouse, a new Public Citizen and National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) report shows.
