Few Comments, Mostly Along Party Lines, on Consumer Advocates’ Petition to CFPB Urging it to Write Rule Empowering Consumers to Choose Arbitration Post-Dispute
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration, Arbitration Agreements, CFPB, Non-Securities Arbitration, RulemakingTags , , , on November 29, 2023

By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

The comment period closed recently on the Petition for Proposed Rulemaking filed by a coalition of leading consumer advocacy groups,

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Consumer Advocates to CFPB: Write Rule Empowering Consumers to Choose Arbitration Post-Dispute
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration Agreements, CFPB, Consumer, Feature Article, Fed Arbitration Act, News, Non-Securities Arbitration, Regulation, RulemakingTags , , , , , , on September 27, 2023

By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

A coalition of leading consumer advocacy groups has petitioned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) to promulgate a rule allowing financial consumers the option to arbitrate after a dispute arises.

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Applying FAA Chapter 1, Eleventh Circuit Finds Lack of Arbitrator Disclosure Did Not Warrant Vacatur
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Awards, Arbitrators, Court Decisions, Fed Arbitration Act, International, Non-Securities ArbitrationTags , , , , on September 7, 2023

By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

Relying on recently-announced Eleventh Circuit precedent — that the grounds set forth in FAA section 10 are the sole basis for challenging “foreign” awards under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“UN Convention”),

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Survey Says: Most Consumers are Unaware of Arbitration Clauses
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration Agreements, Class Action/Collective Waivers, Consumer, Fed Arbitration Act, Non-Securities Arbitration, Statistics & SurveysTags , , on August 9, 2023

By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

A new survey of over 1,000 American consumers: “reveal[s] that most consumers do not pay attention to,

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Ninth Circuit After SCOTUS Remand: Upon Further Review, We’re Good with Our Original Decision
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration Agreements, Business & Employment, Class Action/Collective Waivers, Fed Arbitration Act, Non-Securities Arbitration, SCOTUSTags , , , , , , on August 2, 2023

By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

The Ninth Circuit has acted on the remand from SCOTUS on whether FAA section 1 exempts delivery drivers,

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California Supreme Court: PAGA Plaintiff May Assert Representative Claims
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration Agreements, Business & Employment, Class Action/Collective Waivers, Class Actions, Fed Arbitration Act, News, Non-Securities Arbitration, StateTags , , , , on July 26, 2023

By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

The California Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that, even though a California Private Attorney General Act (“PAGA”) Plaintiff’s individual claims have been referred to arbitration,

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