April, 2011: In AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion the Court held that corporations can ban consumers’ rights to take corporations to court, individually or in class actions, through arbitration clauses in consumer contracts.

Virtually every consumer contract we enter into contains buried within it a term saying that by signing the contract we agree to settle all disputes in arbitration and do not have a right to band our claims together in court in a class action.  Read article…