If corporations really thought consumers would be as likely to get full redress for mass grievances through individual arbitration as through class actions, why would they fight so hard to avoid class actions and steer all claims into arbitration?
The National Association of Securities Dealers recently abandoned long- standing requirements that member companies use arbitration to resolve discrimination claims.
The problem is, each of the merchants signed an agreement to settle their claims in arbitration, and waived their right to join in class actions.
In an interview, Lenny said because Greene had served notice to LB Property that he was "going forward" with the fraud claims in arbitration Greene was not obligated to make an apology.
"There were plenty of new claims identified in filings at the arbitration, " said Lenny, who disagrees with the opinion of the sitting arbitrator who found that no new claims were identified within the 90-day period.
Investors will seize on the e-mail evidence to take their claims for compensation to arbitration.
The Hallowichs also signed a document saying their children "are healthy and have no symptoms that may allegedly be related" to the natural gas activity, but both sides agreed to an arbitration process for any future health claims.
He is threatening to take the club to Uefa arbitration under a contractual clause which he claims allows him to leave in return for a severance payment.
But Amex notes the court has already held that antitrust claims can be resolved through arbitration and Concepcion made it utterly clear that there is nothing inherently wrong with waiving the right to participating in a class action.
It also claims Mr. Armstrong perjured himself in January 2006 when SCA was trying to prove in arbitration hearings that he cheated to win the Tour de France.
"Even if the Court has jurisdiction over Armstrong's remaining claims, the Court finds they are best resolved through the well-established system of international arbitration, by those with expertise in the field, rather than by the unilateral edict of a single nation's courts, " stated Sparks, a judge in the U.S. district court based out of Austin, Texas.
应用推荐