By inserting individual arbitration clauses into a soaring number of consumer and employment contracts, companies like American Express devised a way to circumvent the courts and bar people from joining together in class-action lawsuits, realistically the only tool citizens have to fight illegal or deceitful business practices. Thousands of cases brought by single plaintiffs over fraud, wrongful … Continue reading How Arbitration Clauses are Stripping American Citizens of Their “Right to Go to Court”