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Do you have a job, own a cell phone, or pay with a credit card? Chances are your contracts are bound by mandatory arbitration agreements. Today, an overwhelming majority of employment, consumer, and commercial contracts contain arbitration clauses. But as the reach of arbitration continues to expand so does the debate over what is potentially at stake.
This symposium will focus on two recent, controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions — Rent-a-Center v. Jackson and Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds. Converging issues of arbitrator sovereignty and class-action preclusion, these decisions have been hailed as monumental wins for big-business; criticized as impermissible expansions of judicial review; and condemned as deprivations of individual rights. Now, while lower courts and commentators anxiously await the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in the recently-argued AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, legislators are demanding reform, and the future of arbitration is plagued with uncertainty.
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SPONSORED BY:
The Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation
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