In recent years, it has become increasingly common for lenders to include arbitration clauses in their consumer financing agreements. While federal law strongly supports the enforceability of arbitration provisions, there are a number of grounds on which their enforceability can be, and has been, challenged. This article summarizes the state of the law on a number of major issues which have arisen in the attempt to use arbitration clauses in consumer financing agreements, focusing on Truth-in-Lending Act claims, including an analysis of the Supreme Court\u27s recent decision in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Randolph
With the increase of mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer contracts, private arbitration fir...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule this summer that will prohibit f...
The article focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court case AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, in which Califor...
Mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses are pervasive in consumer financial and investor contracts...
In today’s economy, the effects of a bad credit report are devastating to consumers. Individuals w...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Arbitration clauses in contracts require consumers to waive their rights to bring litigation in cour...
Arbitration has been demonized in the media and consumer protection debates, often without empirical...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Arbitration clauses now appear in many of the form contracts through which consumers obtain goods, s...
Forced arbitration clauses have become almost unavoidable in contracts for financial services and pr...
The American system of arbitration is constantly evolving. From the first formal arbitration tribun...
In the past three decades, most recently in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, the United States Supre...
Arbitration, as a form of alternative dispute resolution, is a favored method of settling legal disp...
As a party to one-fourth of all civil litigation2 the federal government exerts a looming presence i...
With the increase of mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer contracts, private arbitration fir...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule this summer that will prohibit f...
The article focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court case AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, in which Califor...
Mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses are pervasive in consumer financial and investor contracts...
In today’s economy, the effects of a bad credit report are devastating to consumers. Individuals w...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Arbitration clauses in contracts require consumers to waive their rights to bring litigation in cour...
Arbitration has been demonized in the media and consumer protection debates, often without empirical...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Arbitration clauses now appear in many of the form contracts through which consumers obtain goods, s...
Forced arbitration clauses have become almost unavoidable in contracts for financial services and pr...
The American system of arbitration is constantly evolving. From the first formal arbitration tribun...
In the past three decades, most recently in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, the United States Supre...
Arbitration, as a form of alternative dispute resolution, is a favored method of settling legal disp...
As a party to one-fourth of all civil litigation2 the federal government exerts a looming presence i...
With the increase of mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer contracts, private arbitration fir...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule this summer that will prohibit f...
The article focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court case AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, in which Califor...