Today’s post concerns a perennially hot topic: class actions. In particular, do courts decide whether an arbitration agreement allows for class actions? Or do arbitrators? (Because, it turns out, there are actually some corporations who have not inserted class action waivers in their consumer contracts.) To date, four circuit courts have held that class arbitrability
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SCOTUS Adds Another Class Arbitration Case To Its Docket
By Liz Kramer on
Posted in Class Arbitration
Today the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in another case involving the Federal Arbitration Act. The case, Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, comes from the Ninth Circuit and raises a variation of the question from Sutter: how clear does an arbitration agreement need to be to show the parties authorized…