Kaplinsky of Ballard Spahr says this one should be an easy victory for Amex.

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Also expected to return for the Christmas special are last year's runner-up Chelsee Healey and newsreaders Natasha Kaplinsky and Chris Hollins.

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Kaplinsky urges his clients to include other features including an opt-out provision that allows consumers to simply avoid the arbitration clause altogether.

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Where the agreements prohibiting class actions will probably stick, says Kaplinsky, are with credit cards, auto loans, bank deposit agreements and cellular phones.

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"It's just a necessary part of transacting business in the U.S., " says Alan Kaplinsky, a Philadelphia lawyer who has spent much of his 40-year career advising and defending financial-services firms.

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Counting former Strictly Come Dancing winner Natasha Kaplinsky and Dermot Murnaghan among its presenters, the programme retained its ability to combine authoritative news and lighter features, appealing to a wide audience.

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Kaplinsky said there are two possible outcomes, either an outright reversal, which he thinks likely, or a remand for further fact-finding on whether the plaintiff could find less costly ways to pursue the case.

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The company says it has 750 customers using cars on its networks so far in Israel and Demark, though the CEO of its Israel unit, Moshe Kaplinsky, said in an interview last month that 4, 000 vehicles will be on the road by mid-2013.

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