This week marks the Second Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to nullify the Seventh Amendment, your right to trial by jury in civil disputes.   ... Read More

In a new study analyzing the pernicious effects of arbi ... Read More

Our nation is engaged in a robust debate about the Second Amendment. On one side, proponents of gun control focus on the Amendment’s first clause, arguing tha ... Read More

When the Wall Street Journal hails a 5-4 decision written by Justice Scalia and joined by his conservative colleagues as a Read More

The Wall Street Journal notes that while Instagram may have publicly blundered in changing ... Read More

Arbitration clauses that force consumers into one-on-one negotiations with large companies are all the rage with corporations—and apparently the Supreme Court ... Read More

As reported by our friends over at Public Justice, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is currently considering a rule prohibiting mandatory arbitration provisions in insurance products. ... Read More

When the Supreme Court made it okay for corporations to force you as a consumer into the private arbitration process, the idea was that the process would be fair. I ... Read More

“Binding arbitration ensures that we will all continue to hand over our rights in exchange for things we use everyday,” says Avi Kramer in an Read More

The conventional wisdom is that the 2012 election changed nothing. We disagree. For consumers, this election may mark the end of a long decline in consumer rights &n ... Read More

In a guest posting on ADR Prof Blog (www.indisputably.org/?p=4042), Professor Jean Sternlight voic ... Read More

On Saturday The New York Times reported that Micr ... Read More

When the Roberts’ Court granted immunity to corporations by blessing forced arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, corporations acted quickly to place the ... Read More

In an effort to expose corporations which have recently added forced arbitration provisions to their terms of service, Public Citizen has started a "rogues gallery" ... Read More

As we have noted repeatedly on this site, arbitration is not about making sure you can speedily resolve a dispute you may have with a corporation, but about making ... Read More

In Sorto v. American Honda Motor Co., Civ. No. 12-1377 (N.D. Ca.) Honda moved to compel binding arbitration of complaints for excess oil consumption on 2009-10 Honda Accords. But Honda was ... Read More

Senator Al Franken will be hosting a discussion of the impact of mandatory arbitration on consumers of financial products and services.  The program, "Stacking the Debt: Consumer Rights in the ... Read More

PayPal has added itself to the ever expanding list of companies adding a mandatory arbitration provision to its  Terms ... Read More

Today we are officially launching ConsumersCount.org, a consumer service and advocacy organization created in response to the Supreme Court’s sanctioning of f ... Read More

In the year since the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in AT&T v. Concepcion permitting forced arbitration provisions in consumer contracts, it is cl ... Read More

Buried in the late August inboxes of e-bay users is an e-mail explaining e-bay’s new terms of service, most notably its & ... Read More

It's not a coincidence that a document as basic as the Bill of Rights provided every American consumer with a trial by jury to present cases against products and services. The Founding Fathers knew ... Read More

Our elementary school lessons in civics focus on the simple premise that we have three branches of government, the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. We are also told we have a Bill of Ri ... Read More

The dictionary defines a  Kangaroo Court  ... Read More

While pundits were speculating on the Supreme Court’s shift to the left with its unexpected upholding of the healthcare law, ... Read More

The inevitable has arrived. This morning I received an email from Verizon, being the “valued” customer that I am, letting me know that the Verizon Terms of Service for FIOS has been revised. Oh boy! ... Read More

When the Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng, arrived in the United States to study law, the first document he turned ... Read More

Microsoft has joined the ever growing list of United States companies which have  forced consumers who use their products and services to give up their rights to sue in court or join a class acti ... Read More

Corporate America has once again succeeded in keeping disgruntled consumers out of the courtroom.

This time the company is Sirius XM and the class action complaint was filed by a California ... Read More

The 7th Amendment is the last remaining hurdle to Corporate America’s unfettered control of every branch of government. As such, Corporate America needs to delegitimize the Constitutional Right that a ... Read More

Arbitration is not about giving you speedy resolution for a complaint you may have against a corporation. Arbitration is making sure that if you have a grievance against a company, you are alone in fi ... Read More

The United States Consumer Financial Regulatory Board (CFRB)  recently announced that it will be examining how arbitration clauses effect consumers and how effective arbitration is in resolving c ... Read More