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Legislation Could End Mandatory Arbitration for Securities Disputes

On Friday a ranking Democratic member of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Sherrod Brown, introduced a bill aimed at ending pre-dispute arbitration agreements that have become commonplace in business-to-consumer businesses. The bill, called the Arbitration Fairness for Consumers Act, is … Continue reading

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Mandatory Cash Acceptance Legislation and the Ongoing Argument Over Going Cashless

In an American economy driven by Silicon Valley, where Americans pay more than half of their bills online, and millennials have taken to online social platforms like Venmo to split the bill for dinner, cash continues to represent nearly a … Continue reading

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Criddle & Fox-Decent on Mandatory Multilateralism

Evan J. Criddle (William & Mary Law School) and Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University – Faculty of Law) have posted Mandatory Multilateralism (113 American Journal of International Law (2019 Forthcoming)) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This Article challenges the conventional … Continue reading

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Mandatory Wage Garnishment for All Educational Loans?

Last week, Senator Lamar Alexander, the Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, proposed a program that would require student loan borrowers to repay their loans through mandatory automatic deductions from their paychecks. Read more … Continue reading

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Alan H. Schorr Scores Another Big Victory Against Mandatory Arbitration

On January 16, 2019, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued a published decision reversing a trial court order which had compelled a plaintiff to submit her case to binding arbitration. This was another big victory by Alan H. Schorr of … Continue reading

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