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For now, California employers may continue to require new hires to enter into binding mutual agreements to arbitrate all disputes. In a veto action that was somewhat unexpected, California Governor Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown declined to sign...

Earlier this week, a California Court of Appeal issued its published opinion in Garrido v. Air Liquide Industrial U.S ., holding that a class action waiver in an employment arbitration agreement was unconscionable and unenforceable. You're thinking...

by H. Scott Kelly and David N. Anthony Executive Summary: On October 7, 2015, CFPB Director Richard Cordray announced the agency’s plan to issue regulations that would prohibit many financial services companies from requiring consumers to waive...

by Alan S. Kaplinsky An article on consumer arbitration in this week’s Sunday New York Times concludes that “[b]y inserting individual arbitration clauses into a soaring number of consumer and employment contracts, companies … devised...

by Samantha L. Walls On Thursday, May 21, 2015, fifty-eight Democratic members of Congress pushed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) to prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer financial contracts. The clauses,...

by Brendan H. Connors and David N. Anthony On January 20, a Missouri federal judge issued an order granting a debt collector’s Motion to Compel Arbitration in an action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Although such motions are frequently...

by Alan D. Wingfield , Ashley L. Taylor, Jr. , David N. Anthony , Michael E. Lacy and C. Reade Jacob, Jr. A group of 16 state attorneys general recently wrote Richard Cordray, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a letter encouraging the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) A California appellate panel erred when it refused to enforce an arbitration clause contained in a cable provider’s customer agreement, the attorney for the cable provider argued Oct. 6 before the U.S. Supreme...