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Judges and Judiciary

Apr. 19, 2006

Letting Arbitrators Decide on Class Arbitration May Be Unwarranted

Forum Column - By Imre S. Szalai - Almost three years ago, in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003), a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court confronted a controversy involving class arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act.

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By Imre S. Szalai
     
      Almost three years ago, in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003), a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court confronted a controversy involving class arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act. Numerous lower-court decisions, without addressing the heavily fragmented nature of Bazzle, have treated this fractured decision as e...

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