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Kinecta v. Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles May 01, 2012 In this case, a California trial court issued an order permitting an arbitration to proceed on a classwide basis. The…
Feeney v. Dell Inc. April 19, 2012 In Feeney v. Dell, Inc., the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held, before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T…
Brown v. Ralphs April 19, 2012 In this case, an intermediate California appellate court ruled that an arbitration agreement purporting to prohibit employees from asserting claims…
Stuart v. Walker February 16, 2012 As Public Citizen has documented in several reports, Americans regularly sign consumer contracts—such as contracts to open a bank account,…
CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood January 10, 2012 The issue in this case was whether the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA) creates a remedy that is not subject…
AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion April 27, 2011 In AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, the Supreme Court considered the extent to which companies can ban class actions in the…
Rent-a-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson June 21, 2010 Rent-A-Center concerned whether an arbitration agreement that delegated questions of arbitrability to an arbitrator, including the issue of the enforceability…
Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp. June 01, 2010 Public Citizen filed an amicus brief in this case arguing that an interim procedural decision in an arbitration (here, whether…
Dickerson v. Longoria May 24, 2010 This case raised important questions about the use of forced arbitration in nursing home admissions. Public Citizen represented the Estate…