Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/champerty-loves-company/

Over on @hoffprof.bsky.social's Substack, Contracts’ Empire, he links to an empirical study on mass arbitration published by the Chamber of Commerce. I process, with some help from @profstephenware.bsky.social's presentation at AALS this month. I note, having recently seen Cass Sunstein’s Substack on the subject, my pro-mass-arbitration tribal response.

#law #contracts #arbitration #massarbitration #Substack #scholarship #ChamberOfCommerce

https://www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/01/dave-hoffman-on-the-chamber-of-commerces-take-on-mass-arbitration/

Back in October, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a District Court determination that Live Nation’s batch arbitration scheme is unconscionable. Is it ever! The opinion is scathing but also legally bold.

#law #contracts #arbitration #LiveNation #MassArbitration #BatchArbitration

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/big-mass-arbitration-decision-from-the-ninth-circuit.html

What if thousands of users bring arbitrations against a company and it refuses to pay the arbitration fees? If the arbitration association dismisses the claims, can a court order the arbitration to proceed? Seventh Circuit says no!

#law #contracts #MassArbitration #litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/08/samsungs-chutzpah-rewarded-in-the-seventh-circuit.html

The corporate response to mass arbitrations is not going well. New Jersey court follows a California Court is striking Verizon's arbitration provision in its entirety as permeated with unconscionability.

#law #contracts #arbitration #MassArbitration #BellwetherProceedings #unconscionability

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/05/nj-appellate-court-finds-verizons-arbitration-provision-unconscionable.html

How are corporations responding to mass arbitration? Drexel Law's Richard Frankel has undertaken the first empirical study, and it is revealing, mostly of the lengths to which corporations will go to evade accountability.

#law #contracts #arbitration #MassArbitration #BatchArbitration #Scholarship #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/04/richard-frankel-on-the-corporate-response-to-mass-arbitration.html

Consumers: individual lawsuits
Vendors: mandatory arbitration
C: class action lawsuits or representative arbitrations
V: bootstrapped class action waivers
C: mass arbitration
V: refusal to pay arbitration fees? "Batch arbitration"?
Oh my

#law #contracts #arbitration #MassArbitration #litigation #Samsung

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/02/samsung-challenges-mass-arbitration-in-the-seventh-circuit.html