On February 19, 2021, the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of a motion to compel arbitration in a putative class action lawsuit alleging violations of various California consumer protection statutes. The court rejected the Plaintiff’s argument that the Agreement was invalid under California law because its class action waiver prohibited her from seeking injunctive relief.
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In this round of Arbitration Tips-N-Tools, Professor Amy Schmitz asks some of the leading arbitration practitioners about drafting Arbitration Clauses, especially in a digital world and faced with the complexities...
By Julie Hopkins, Amy Schmitz, Rachel Goedken, Linda MichlerThis article first appeared on Consumer Finance Monitor, here. A litigation phenomenon that has recently surged is the simultaneous filing of hundreds or even thousands of individual arbitration demands against...
By Mark LevinSeveral months ago, Co-editors Giacomo Rojas Elgueta, James Hosking and Yasmine Lahlou, in collaboration with ICCA, released a number of national reports regarding the right to a physical hearing. The...
By Stacie Strong
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