Oregon Legal Research Blog
I’ve been working on a blog post linking to summaries of this Oregon Legislative Session’s consumer law accomplishments e.g. see the Oregon Live information, but got sidetracked by this story. Mandatory arbitration requirements have been a hot topic for a while amongst consumer law attorneys:
From an Oregon attorney’s blog post about a lawsuit against the National Arbitration Forum. Excerpt:
“This major development in the fight against arbitration abuse has potential to cause some serious carnage. The State of Minnesota filed a lawsuit against National Arbitration Forum, a leading arbitration provider, claiming that NAF is a front for debt collectors and their law firms and not an independent arbitration service. Here’s a copy of the complaint–it’s long–for anyone who is interested….” (read full post)
Other news stories about this lawsuit can be found using this search in Google:
minnesota lawsuit national arbitration forum (and set your date range for the past month)