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: California Credit Law BlogArbitration Forum Exiting Credit Card Business
By Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barron, Ogilvie & Brewer
The Minnesota Attorney General sued the National Arbitration Forum alleging it was essentially a front for various large banks and collection agencies. NAF falsely held itself it out to be a neutral forum for processing creditors' claims against consumers.
On July 19, 2009, the AG announced that NAF has entered into a settlement of the lawsuit under which NAF will immediately stop accepting consumer arbitrations of any sort. This is wonderful news for consumers and a major step towards getting rid of all mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts.
Full post as published by California Credit Law Blog on July 20, 2009 (boomark / email).
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