Companies rarely invoke mandatory arbitration clauses to prevent individual customers from going to court, but they are frequently used to prevent class action lawsuits, the Consumer Financial ...
The specter of a data breach, and the class action litigation that regularly follows, is a common worry in the health care space. Yet class action litigation arising out of a data breach is only the ...
(CN) - The maker of a taxi-service smartphone app cannot force drivers - prospective or current - to drop their rights to sue the company for allegedly pinching their tips, a federal judge ruled. The ...
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A Dec. 11 report by the Center for American Progress outlined recent controversy surrounding the FTC’s attempt to ban noncompete agreements earlier in 2024, as well as several common types of clauses ...
Business customers that agreed to arbitrate disputes cannot “piggyback” their claims onto a consumer class action in court, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The court’s 5-4 decision in TELUS ...
Megan Janes, left, and Paul Lopez, right. In a significant victory for employers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled- that arbitration clauses in employment contracts are enforceable even if they prevent ...
A payday loan company's lawyer argued Wednesday that the Florida Supreme Court must uphold a contract provision prohibiting customers from banding together in class action arbitration cases against ...
Kai Ryssdal:The Supreme Court’s going to get down in the fine print tomorrow. Contract law, specifically. Fine print, quite literally. The justices are going to hear a case about those arbitration ...