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Last year a firestorm erupted after General Mills, the maker of Bisquick, Cheerios, and other food brands, changed the legal terms on its website, requiring that all disputes related to the purchase ...

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These “take it or leave it” mandatory arbitration agreements fit the classic hornbook definition of an unlawful contract of adhesion. Given the present climate, we regret not much can be done except ...

The current Supreme Court is undoubtedly pro-arbitration – but after Monday’s oral argument in Morgan v. Sundance, it appeared that it might nonetheless conclude that a party can lose the right to ...

Whether a dispute will be litigated or arbitrated is usually determined long before the dispute even arises—at the time a contract is negotiated, drafted, and executed. Companies and practitioners ...

In the fall of 2011, Career Education Corporation (CECO) revealed that a significant number of its schools had cooked the books on the job placement rates they were disclosing to prospective students ...

August 15, 2022 - The past decade has seen a variety of hot topics emerge in the labor and employment law field. This includes independent contractor classification, state and local paid sick leave ...

Public Citizen, a consumer activist group, is urging the Federal Trade Commission to forbid solar leasing companies from requiring customers to sign away their right to raise complaints in court.

According to an article from law firm Venable posted on legal news site Lexology.com, Virginia's State Corporation Commission's ban on investment advisors operating in the state from using mandatory ...

An anticipated SEC report on the inclusion of mandated arbitration clauses in contracts for clients of registered investment advisors—released this week by the U.S. House Committee on ...