Abstract
An increasing number of consumer financial products have begun to come pre-packaged with binding individual arbitration agreements. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rule forbidding these agreements sought to ensure that consumers damaged by their banks’ actions could have their day in court. When Congress chose to repeal the so called “Arbitration Rule” in 2017, it dealt a serious blow to consumers’ rights. Consumers are nearly universally precluded from joining class action claims against large financial institutions due to the widespread and largely unfettered use of class-action waivers in arbitration agreements. This Note argues that class-action waivers should be regulated to ensure that individuals with inferior bargaining power and legal resources are not subjected to poor treatment at the hands of their
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Metadata
- Subject
Banking and Finance Law
Consumer Protection Law
Contracts
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
Torts
- Journal title
Boston College Law Review
- Volume
60
- Issue
6
- Pagination
1605
- Date submitted
6 September 2022