Business Lobby Prods 9th Circuit to Revisit Decision Curbing Consumer Arbitration
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business and employer groups have just submitted amicus briefs calling on the 9th Circuit to reconsider decisions that, in the views of these amici, eviscerate mandatory arbitration provisions, writes Alison Frankel in a Reuters report.
The briefs come in the wake of the 9th Circuit’s June 28 rulings in which plaintiffs claimed they couldn’t be forced into arbitration because they sought injunctions against corporate defendants.
The court found that because California’s policy of allowing consumers to pursue public injunctions does not specifically obstruct arbitration, it’s not precluded by the Federal Arbitration Act.
