On June 13, 2023, Lieff Cabraser partner Sarah London testified before the California State Assembly in support of SB 365. The bill, if passed, would put an end to a tactic used by corporate defendants to exploit the legal appeal process as a means to indefinitely delay a case when a judge overrules their demand
Forced arbitration, the scourge of fair and open adjudication, is greatly favored by the corporate defendants sued for fraud and misconduct by consumers, corporate defendants who fund and almost always win arbitration’s closed proceedings that occur without a judge, jury, or public scrutiny Earlier this week, the California Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 365, closing
The opinion is expected to have far-ranging effects in what was a previously insufficiently-explored area of contract formation and consumer rights in the new high-tech era On January 4, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued an opinion in the high-profile Massachusetts Uber consumer contracts case about how contracts get formed
Consumer Reports has published an in-depth article on forced arbitration, uncovering the devastating negative impact it has had on the rights of American consumers by limiting their options to seek justice and compensation when products turn out to be faulty or harmful.
Powerful and straightforward piece in Slate reveals how Americans have had their consumer and employee rights stripped away from them Since their inception, class action lawsuits have provided consumers with a mechanism to challenge and deter large corporations from breaking the law. Over the last decade, however, hundreds of millions of Americans have seen themselves
The Chief Operating Officer of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) recently penned a letter to the public in an attempt to provide people with the latest information on how to get involved in the AAJ’s grassroots efforts to end forced arbitration.
An article published in the November 2019 issue of the American Association for Justice’s Trial Magazine highlights a new research report examining the devastating impact forced arbitration has had on the rights of American workers and consumers. The report looks at how forced arbitration suppresses claims against corporations specifically when corporations harm workers and consumers by cheating,
Google employees are organizing a phone drive that will take place on Wednesday, May 1st to press lawmakers into supporting The Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (“FAIR”) Act. The FAIR Act is an initiative recently reintroduced in the House of Representatives seeking to end the use of arbitration agreements in employment contracts so as to sidestep
Formal amendment to the Model Unfair Trade Practices Act seeks to prohibit pre-dispute forced arbitration provisions According to Insurance Business America, pretty much everyone except big business hates forced dispute arbitration, a diversion of adjudication from open courts to closed, one-sided panels that has been shoved down the throats of consumers across nearly every industry.