Government,
Alternative Dispute Resolution,
Administrative/Regulatory
Mar. 25, 2015
Fighting against forced arbitration
Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report that spelled what many have argued for years: Forced arbitration restricts basic consumer legal rights.
Elise R. Sanguinetti
Founding Partner
Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team LLP
Phone: (510) 629-4877
Email: elise@aswtlawyers.com
University of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA
Elise is the immediate-past president of Consumer Attorneys of California and president-elect of American Association for Justice.
It's nearly impossible these days to escape the long arm of the arbitration clause. Just about every type of contract in our bustling world of commerce comes equipped with a mandate that disputes be resolved through private arbitration instead of in the civil courts. You can find forced arbitration tucked away in most credit card agreements and cellphone deals, hidden in the boilerplate of auto loans, stashed deep in the fine print of nursing home admission papers, employment agreements ...
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