For most small to medium-sized businesses, the threat of a class action is not usually front-of-mind. However, as a business grows, the threat can increase depending on the number of employees and the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau revealed its new rule to ban companies from using mandatory arbitration clauses, allowing consumers to participate in class action lawsuits. The new rule ...

In a decision dated January 7, 2013, the California Court of Appeal invalidated a mandatory arbitration and class action waiver clause in an automobile sales contract, ruling that the arbitration ...

The Mental Health Matters Act would, among other things, ban forced arbitration clauses, class action waivers, discretionary clauses, and representation waivers in ERISA-governed plans. The Mental ...

(CN) - The maker of a taxi-service smartphone app cannot force drivers - prospective or current - to drop their rights to sue the company for allegedly pinching their tips, a federal judge ruled. The ...

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Kai Ryssdal:The Supreme Court’s going to get down in the fine print tomorrow. Contract law, specifically. Fine print, quite literally. The justices are going to hear a case about those arbitration ...

A Dec. 11 report by the Center for American Progress outlined recent controversy surrounding the FTC’s attempt to ban noncompete agreements earlier in 2024, as well as several common types of clauses ...

A company of Canada's Sun Life Financial is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit in the United States from a policyholder over discretionary proof clauses in its disability insurance contracts. The ...