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My recent SCOTUSblog post  on the October 2010 Supreme Court Term class action decisions does not address an important decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which was issued last week.  In Litman v. Cellco Partnership, the Third Circuit held that New Jersey decision holding class arbitration waivers unconscionable was preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act.  To [...]

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In an entry entitled Concepcion, Four Long Months Later, I summarized several decisions evaluating class arbitration waiver provisions following the Concepcion decision.  I neglected to include the case of NAACP of Camden County East v. Foulke Management Corp., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011), in which a New Jersey state appellate court held an arbitration provision unenforceable under state law [...]

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Class action news has slowed a bit over the Summer months, at least compared to the non-stop action we witnessed this Spring.  But one area that has seen continued development in the past few months has been the area of class arbitration waivers, where several lower court decisions have been issued in the wake of AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion.  A view [...]

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David Waller, my partner at Baker Hostetler and hospitality lawyer extraordinaire, posted an entry in the firm’s Hospitality Lawg yesterday entitled AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion – Reconsidering Arbitration in the Hospitality Context.  The article offers practical tips from a transactional lawyer’s perspective on how to take advantage of arbitration agreements in light of the  Supreme Court’s decision.  Although the article is directed [...]

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In response yesterday’s entry discussing Daniel Fisher’s article on the potential impacts of Concepcion, I got one of the best comments that I’ve ever received on this site.  It comes from Portland complex injury and consumer class action attorney David Sugerman, who blogs at www.davidsugerman.com.  Of course, I disagree with just about every word of it, but with imagery like a bunch [...]

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Daniel Fisher, who writes the Full Disclosure blog at Forbes.com, posted an article last Friday titled Has Scalia Killed the Class Action?  Fisher’s article one of the best I’ve seen in discussing the potential practical impact that the Supreme Court’s recent class arbitration waiver decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion may have on future consumer class action litigation.  I highly recommend it.  [...]

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Two op-eds published today highlight the philosophical debate over the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion. The first, published by the New York Times, argues that the decision is a “devastating blow to consumer rights” because it makes it practically impossible for many consumers to seek vindication of their [...]

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UC Irvine Law School Dean and noted constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky authored an op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times critical of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion titled Supreme Court: Class (Action) Dismissed.  Dean Chemerinsky argues that Concepcion is part of an alarming trend in decisions by the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc that blatantly favor [...]

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Last week, following the Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, I commented that the decision does not answer the question whether a federal court has the power to declare a class arbitration waiver unconscionable.  Although not on this precise issue, the Court has granted cert on a related issue relating to the enforceability [...]

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