Consumer Law Materials: Arbitration

Consumer Law (Spring 2010)

Supplemental Materials on Consumer Arbitration

Assigned reading:

Kinkel v. Cingular Wireless LLC, 857 N.E.2d 250 (Ill. 2006)
Keefe v. Allied Home Mortgage Corp., 912 N.E.2d 310 (Ill. App. 5th Dist. 2009)
Robert Berner & Brian Grow, Banks vs. Consumers (Guess Who Wins), Business Week (June 5, 2008)

Additional background material (optional):

Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, 546 U.S. 440 (2006)
Sample Arbitration Provisions Contained in Credit Card Agreements
Richard Neely, Arbitration and the Godless Bloodsuckers, W. Va. Law. 12 (Sept./Oct. 2006)
Roger Haydock, Setting the Record Straight About Contractual Arbitration: A Response to Richard Neely, W. Va. Law. 12 (Nov./Dec. 2006)
The Arbitration Trap: How Credit Cards Companies Ensnare Consumers (Public Citizen, Sept. 2007)
Peter B. Rutledge, Arbitration - A Good Deal for Consumers: A Response to Public Citizen (U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Apr. 2008)
Consumers Blindsided by Arbitration Clauses in Credit Card Contracts, National Consumer Law Center Outlook (Spring 2005)
Mark E. Budnitz, The High Cost of Mandatory Consumer Arbitration, 67 L. & Contemp. Probs. 133 (2004)
Paul D. Carrington, Unconscionable Lawyers, 19 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 361 (2002)
Theodore Eisenberg et al., Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts, 41 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 871 (2008)
Christopher R. Drahozal & Samantha Zyontz, An Empirical Study of AAA Consumer Arbitrations (Mar. 13, 2009)