Arbitration & Access to Justice Archive

Policy Analysis

Policy Briefs, Reports and Press Releases

• Press Release: Government Should Not Deprive Seniors in Nursing Homes of Their Day in Court, Aug. 7, 2017
• Press Release: CFPB Rule Restores Consumers’ Day in Court Over Financial Misconduct, July 10, 2017
• Press Release: Fair Arbitration Now Coalition Urges the U.S. House to Stop Stripping CFPB and SEC of Authority to Restrict Forced Arbitration, May 4, 2017
• Press Release: Sterling Jewelers, Wells Fargo Scandals Show Why Forced Arbitration Must End, Mar. 7, 2017
• Press Release: Congress Moving Quickly to Squelch Worker Complaints at Federal Contractors Through Forced Arbitration, Feb. 3, 2017
• Press Release: Advocates applaud bill that would give victims of Wells Fargo fake accounts their day in court, Dec. 1, 2016
• Press Release: NCLC comments to CFPB on proposed arbitration and class action rule: Stop Bank, Payday Lender, and Scammer Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Cards and Restore Consumers’ Access to Court, Aug. 22, 2016
• Press Release: Rule to Rein in Illegal Business Practice Gains Key Support from Congress, Aug. 3, 2016
• Press Release: NCLC to testify before the Chicago City Council on harms of forced arbitration by contractors in consumer and employment agreements, June 15, 2016
• Press Release on Forced Arbitration: CFPB Issues Proposed Rules to Restore Consumers’ Legal Rights, May 5, 2016
• Press Release: Coalition Calls on Seven Major Corporations to Stop Using Forced Arbitration, Dec. 10, 2015
• Press release: CFPB takes aim at corporate get-out-of-jail card, Oct. 7, 2015
• Press Release: Consumers to CFPB: End Forced Arbitration, June 18, 2015
• Press Release: NACA and NCLC: House Moves to Weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, June 17, 2015
• Press Release: Statement on the Implementation of President Obama’s Executive Order on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces, May 27, 2015
• Press Release: FTC Reaffirms Consumer Right to Enforce Warranty Protections in Court, May 26, 2015
• NACA and NCLC Support Reintroduction of Landmark Legislation to Restore Consumers, Workers, and Small Businesses’ Access to Justice, April 30, 2015
• Press Release: National Association of Consumer Advocates and the National Consumer Law Center Support the Court Legal Access & Student Support (CLASS) Act, S. 1122 (Durbin)/H.R. 2079 (Waters), April 29, 2015
• CFPB’s New Study Supports Need for Quick Action to End Forced Arbitration in Consumer Financial Product Agreements, March 10, 2015
• Press Release: CFPB Study Shines Light on the Widespread, Unjust Corporate Practice of Secret, Forced Arbitration, December 12, 2013
• Issue Brief: The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2013: Protect Consumers & Employees from Forced Arbitration, November 2013
• During National Consumer Protection Week, Consumer Advocates Warn About Harms of Forced Arbitration, Press Release, (March 7, 2013)
• U.S. Supreme Court CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood Decision Denies Basic Legal Right to Day in Court, Press Release, (Jan. 10, 2012)
• Report on Forced Arbitration: A Biased System of Private Justice, April 2010
• 10 Practice Implications of the NAF Stunner, July/August 2009
• Issue brief: Hold Wrongdoers Accountable to the Consumers They Harm, Nov. 2009

Letters

• Letter to the CFPB from 310 civil rights, labor, community, consumer and nonprofit organizations supporting the final arbitration rule, July 12, 2017
• Letter supporting Calif. SB 33 prohibiting forced arbitration of bank fraud claims, April 28, 2017
• Coalition letter to Wells Fargo urging immediate stop to using forced arbitration to deny victims of fake accounts their day in court, Feb. 24, 2017
• Coalition letter supporting H.R. 585, Feb. 6, 2017
• Coalition letters to House and Senate supporting regulations implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order and its ban on forced arbitration, Jan. 31, 2017
• Letter from NCLC and 38 other advocacy organizations urging the FCC to oppose opt-in customer consent for broadband & other telecom. providers and to prohibit forced arbitration clauses in contracts, Sept. 7, 2016
• Coalition Letter to FCC Commissioner Clyburn Supporting the Solutions 2020 Call to Action Plan, Jan. 11, 2017
• Letter opposing Appropriation riders that limit CFPB’s arbitration authority, May 10, 2016
• Letter supporting Blumenthal-Franken Telecom-Arb Bill, Apr. 28, 2016
• Letter from 164 advocacy and business groups to the CFPB urging ban of forced arbitration, April 27, 2016
• Coalition Letter to Secretary King urging the U.S. Department of Education to adopt strong rules denying Title IV funding to schools that force students into mandatory arbitration, April 25, 2016
• 47 Groups Call on Department of Education to Halt Federal Funding for Predatory Schools That Deny Students’ Legal Rights, March 4, 2016
• S. 2506 (Leahy), Restoring Statutory Rights Act of 2016. Consumer support letter, Feb. 4th, 2016
• Opposition letter to H.R. 1927, a bill to destroy class actions, Jan. 6, 2016
• Group letter to seven corporations urging removal of forced arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, Dec. 10, 2015
• Letter to CFPB re Arbitration Study Report to Congress, March 24, 2015
• Letter to Congress supporting class actions, Feb. 26, 2015
• Group letter to U.S. Dept. of Education re: Corinthian Colleges sale to ECMC and loss of students’ legal rights by requiring students to sign forced arbitration clauses, Jan. 22, 2015.
• Letter Re: Data on How Auto Finance Companies Continue to Force Consumers into Arbitration, Aug 21, 2014
• Letter supporting H.R. 1020, Arbitration Fairness Act, July 2010
• Letter supporting Arbitration Fairness Act, H.R. 1020 (Johnson)
• Consumer Groups Support Nursing Home Arbitration Act S. 2838/HR 6126, May 2008
• Letter Supporting Arbitration Fairness Act, S. 1782, Dec. 2007

Comments

• Comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding Arbitration Agreements, Aug. 2016
• Coalition Comments of 41 student, veteran, civil rights, and consumer groups re: the Department of Education’s Proposals on Forced Arbitration, Class-Action Bans, and Mandatory Internal Dispute Processes​, ​Aug. 1, 2016
• Group Comments to FCC’s request for comment on whether it should ban forced arbitration clauses in internet broadband contracts, May 26, 2016
• Comments to DoD, GSA and NASA regarding implementation of the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Executive Order, Aug. 26, 2015
• Group Comments to the CFPB re: Information Collection for Proposed Consumer Survey re: Forced Arbitration, Aug. 6, 2013
• Comments to the CFPB regarding Truth in Lending Act – Regulation Z: Loan Originator Compensation, Oct. 16, 2012
• Comments of the National Association of Consumer Advocates and The National Consumer Law Center: Notice and Request for Information on the Scope, Methods, and Data Sources for Conducting Study of Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements, June 23, 2012

 

Testimony

• NCLC testimony before the Chicago City Council on harms of forced arbitration by contractors in consumer and employment agreements, June 15, 2016.
• NCLC testimony before the New York State Assembly on the harms of forced arbitration clauses, February 10, 2016
• Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary: Recent Developments in the Forced Arbitration Market and the Continued Need for Protective Legislation, September 15, 2009.
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Model State Laws Limiting Arbitration

• The Model State Consumer and Employee Justice Enforcement Act, November 2015

Related Publications

• Consumer Arbitration Agreements