Showing posts with label Arbitration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arbitration. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2016

Street Scene: Finra Arbitration Case Offers a Peek Into a Murky World

Street Scene: Finra Arbitration Case Offers a Peek Into a Murky World


Forced arbitration can circumvent legal rights, but Finra’s version of arbitration comes with an additional dollop of what seems like bias.


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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Start-Ups Embrace Arbitration to Settle Workplace Disputes

Start-Ups Embrace Arbitration to Settle Workplace Disputes


As new companies grow, they are relying on a tool used by big corporations to shield themselves from potentially expensive class-action court cases.


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Thursday, April 14, 2016

House Democrats Call for Curbs on Required Arbitration

House Democrats Call for Curbs on Required Arbitration


Legislators urged curtailment of a practice in which judges and juries are supplanted by arbitrators in disputes between companies and consumers.










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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Efforts to Rein In Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack

Efforts to Rein In Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack


As regulators, lawmakers and the Justice Department pushed to restrict arbitration, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others pushed back.


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Efforts to Rein In Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack

Efforts to Rein In Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack


As regulators, lawmakers and the Justice Department pushed to restrict arbitration, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others pushed back.










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Saturday, November 14, 2015

The Virtues of Arbitration

The Virtues of Arbitration


The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform says that “arbitration provides consumers with a fairer, simpler, cheaper and faster way of resolving disputes.”


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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Forcing Consumers Into Arbitration

Forcing Consumers Into Arbitration


Readers discuss the fine print clauses in contracts that bar bringing lawsuits against companies.


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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Beware The Fine Print: In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’

Beware The Fine Print: In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’


Forced individual arbitration often bears little resemblance to court: The rules tend to favor businesses, and judges and juries are replaced by arbitrators whose rulings are difficult to appeal.


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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Beware the Fine Print: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice

Beware the Fine Print: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice


With a clause in complex contracts that few people read, corporations have insulated themselves from lawsuits and locked Americans into a system where arbitrators overwhelmingly favor business.










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Beware the Fine Print: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice

Beware the Fine Print: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice


With a clause in complex contracts that few people read, corporations have insulated themselves from lawsuits and locked Americans into a system where arbitrators overwhelmingly favor business.










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Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice

Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice


With a clause in complex contracts that few people read, corporations have insulated themselves from lawsuits and locked Americans into a system where arbitrators overwhelmingly favor business.


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