Litigation
Aug. 31, 2016
Are courts changing their tune on arbitration agreement enforceability?
Recent headlines from across the country indicate that the tide is slowly starting to turn against sloppy one-size-fits-all arbitration agreements. A spate of recent decisions have found arbitrations agreements to be unenforceable. By Zach Cantor
When bosses get out of line and make your life hell, most workers assume they can sue or even join a class action - not realizing that the deck was stacked against them the day they accepted the job. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has favored increasingly common arbitration agreements where employees sign away some of their basic rights as a condition of employment.
But the tide may be turning. The U.S. Supreme Court li...
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