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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

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Ninth Circuit Issues Decision Limiting Scope of Concepcion

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In Heckman v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., a panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision refusing to enforce the Ticketmaster arbitration provision in a purported consumer antitrust class action brought...more

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Ninth Circuit Reverses District Court, Sending Opportunity Financial Lawsuit to Arbitration

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently reversed a district court’s ruling, which had denied a motion to compel arbitration of Opportunity Financial (OppFi) on the basis that the arbitration clause was...more

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Small business borrowers bring lawsuit alleging lender engaged in “rent-a-charter” scheme to make usurious loans

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A group of small businesses and their individual owners have filed a putative class action lawsuit in a New York federal district court against online lender Kabbage, Inc. that alleges Kabbage engaged in a “rent-a-charter”...more

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