Arbitration Fairness Act 2013

This Is The Most Important Consumer Rights Bill You've Probably Never Heard Of.

 In 1925, Congress enacted what they thought was a modest law enabling sophisticated businesses to agree to resolve their disputes through private arbitration. Decades later, the Supreme Court transformed it into something completely different — enabling corporations to force workers and consumers into signing away their right to appear in a real court, and shunting them into a privatized arbitration system where the arbitrator is often closely aligned with the corporation.

There are supposed to be safeguards against the most abusive forms of forced arbitration. However,  under this Supreme Court, the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act has been transformed into a magic wand corporations can wave in order to make lawsuits against them go away.

On April 27th, 2011 the Supreme Court made the most important ruling in consumer protection cases in its history,  AT&T Mobility v. Conception. 
In this decision they ruled that corporations can use the arbitration clauses to insulate themselves from liability.  Forcing consumers into, arbitration, they only thing they have to do is put it in the contract that you are forced to sign.

On May 7th, 2013 Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) introduced a bill to fix this. Under the Arbitration Fairness Act, “no predispute arbitration agreement shall be valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment dispute, consumer dispute, antitrust dispute, or civil rights dispute.”

So your boss cannot illegally fire you and then force you into a corporate-owned court. Your cell phone company cannot overcharge you and then escape meaningful accountability.  And your mother’s nursing home will no longer be able to abuse its charges and then shunt any lawsuits into a biased arbitration panel. 

At least, that is, if this bill is signed into law. Until then, the Supreme Court’s decisions expanding federal arbitration law into areas expressly forbidden by the law’s text will remain in effect.

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND PUT AND END TO FORCED ARBITRATION!  REGAIN YOUR RIGHTS!  PUT AN END TO FORCED ARBITRATION CLAUSES IN EVERY CONTRACT THAT YOU SIGN OR BOX YOU CLICK WHEN YOU AGREE TO TERMS AND CONDTIONS.

PLEASE DO NOT BECOME THE NEXT VICTIM OF FORCED ARBITRATION

THANK YOU

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