Consumer Law

Top-Side Amicus Briefs Filed in AT&T v. Concepcion

By Deepak Gupta

Readers of this blog have already heard a lot about AT&T v. Concepcion -- the upcoming case in which the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state-law rulings that class-action bans are unconscionable. 

Today, the amicus briefs in support of AT&T are being filed.  We're posting them below and are also adding them to a new web page that we've created to help people follow the case.  Here are the briefs filed so far:

American Bankers Association, American Financial Services Association, Consumer Bankers Association, Financial Services Roundtable, and California Bankers Association (Alan Kaplinsky)

Chamber of Commerce of United States (Roy Englert)

CTIA -- The Wireless Industry Association (Paul Clement)

DRI -- The Voice of the Defense Bar (Kevin Newsom)

Equal Employment Advisory Council

New England Legal Foundation

Pacific Legal Foundation

We are also expecting a few others briefs, from DirecTV and Ted Frank's Center for Class Action Fairness, among others. We'll post them as we receive them.

[Disclosure: Deepak Gupta of Public Citizen Litigation Group, the host of this blog, is lead counsel for the respondents in AT&T v. Concepcion in the Supreme Court.]

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on August 09, 2010 (boomark / email).