What does baseball have to do with your right to go to court? Read Lawyerball to see the arguments that a billion-dollar ball club used to avoid an arbitration result that they said was unfair in procedure and substance. Source: Lawyerball – The Courtroom Battle for the Future of Baseball
CFPB Arbitration Study Preliminary Results
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) requires the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to study the effects of consumer finance arbitration clauses. These are contract clauses that require any future disputes between consumers and companies to be resolved through private arbitration, rather than in court. Consumers are required to accept these clauses in “take-it-or-leave-it” …
