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Ballard Spahr LLP

New Jersey Supreme Court Enforces Stand-Alone Class Action Waiver

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Earlier this year, the New Jersey Supreme Court held in Pace v. Hamilton Cove that class action waivers in consumer contracts that do not contain an arbitration clause (i.e., a stand-alone class action waiver) are not per se...more

Burr & Forman

Eleventh Circuit Finds Forum Selection Clause and Class Action Waiver in Payday Loan Agreements Unenforceable as against Georgia...

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In Davis v. Oasis Legal Fin. Operating Co., LLC, 18-10526, 2019 WL 4051592 (11th Cir. Aug. 28, 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Eleventh Circuit”) affirmed a decision in the U.S. District Court for...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

California Supreme Court Punts on FAA Preemption - Court invalidates waiver of public injunctive relief, declines to address...

Last month, the California Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in McGill v. Citibank N.A., holding that an arbitration provision that effectively waives a consumer’s statutory right to seek public injunctive...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Dancing On Their Own: The California Supreme Court’s Decision in McGill v. Citibank, N.A. that Class Action Waivers Do Not Apply...

On April 6, 2017, the California Supreme Court struck another blow in its contentious battle with the United States Supreme Court on the enforceability of consumer arbitration clauses subject to the Federal Arbitration Act...more

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