U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Is Not Amused.
On November 1 and 2, I reported on the NYT Special Report about arbitration – articles highly critical of the spread of arbitration. While the report is one-sided in its approach, it does serve to highlight the revolution that is quietly occurring in our legal system, as arbitration clauses become increasingly widespread – and enforceable – in employment law, and consumer law.
Predictably, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has not taken the attack on arbitration lying down. In a spirited defense of arbitration, the U.S. Chamber describes the NYT investigation as “little more than an opinion piece masquerading as fact. . . . incomplete, misleading, and one-sided . . . underscored by the article’s resort to innuendo about the ethics of a Supreme Court Justice . . . “
COMMENT: U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. NYT is only the latest sign that the role to be played by arbitration in the American legal system is now highly politicized. The fault lines are apparent in the liberal/conservative split in SCOTUS arbitration decisions, and the polarization in the statements of labor and consumer versus business interests.
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