Let’s end mandatory binding arbitration. Companies force consumers to revoke their right to lawsuit by embedding language in terms of use contracts that say in the event of any dispute, both parties have to go to an arbitration firm, which the company pays for… The Christian Science Monitor found that the top 10 most used arbitration firms only found in favor of consumer 1.6% of the time. Is it any wonder they’re so popular?

Urge your elected representatives to support The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 (here’s how to look up your Represenatives’ info, and here’s for Senators).

S.1782 “A bill to amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United States Code with respect to arbitration” [THOMAS]
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