{"id":11050,"date":"2020-04-07T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2020-04-07T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:56:29","slug":"ironia-de-las-empresas-que-buscan-evitar-sus-propios-acuerdos-de-arbitraje-cuando-se-encuentran-con-las-caracteristicas-del-arbitraje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/blog\/ironia-de-las-empresas-que-buscan-evitar-sus-propios-acuerdos-de-arbitraje-cuando-se-encuentran-con-las-caracteristicas-del-arbitraje\/","title":{"rendered":"La iron\u00eda de las iron\u00edas: Las empresas que tratan de evitar sus propios acuerdos de arbitraje cuando se enfrentan a solicitudes de arbitraje masivas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In what must be the irony of all ironies in the class action and arbitration world, the New York Times reports<\/a> companies requiring their customers to pursue claims in arbitration are being hit with \u201cmass arbitration\u201d in which thousands of customers file individual arbitration demands at the same time.  Faced with thousands of arbitration demands and the arbitration filing fees those companies\u2019 agreements require them to pay when a customer files an arbitration demand, the companies are balking and trying to get out of arbitrating the claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after years of litigation across the country and several times before the United States Supreme Court in which companies argued that class arbitration cannot be allowed unless explicitly agreed to and that contractual waivers of class actions are enforceable.[1]<\/a>  Apparently companies forgot the old saying that \u201cwhat is good for the goose is good for the gander.\u201d  As a judge ruling on an attempt by one of these companies to avoid arbitration of thousands of claims said, \u201cthere is a lot of poetic justice here.\u201d  The irony cherry on top of this irony ice cream sundae is that one of the parties hit with mass arbitration filings and seeking to avoid its own arbitration agreement is AT&T, the same company who pushed the issue of barring class arbitration<\/a> all the way to the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we suspect that mass arbitration is not a silver bullet for dealing with the ills of arbitration\u2014repeat players leading to conflicts of interest, lack of appellate review, increased costs hindering bringing small claims, etc.<\/em>\u2014it does represent a new avenue for holding corporate behemoths accountable when they engage in misconduct and try to shield themselves behind arbitration agreements.  Perhaps it will begin to dissuade companies from placing adhesion arbitration provisions into every consumer contract.  We know this will not be the end of the long-running war over oppressive arbitration provisions in consumer contracts, but it at least is a setback for corporations trying to avoid being held accountable for their misconduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> Directv, Inc. v. Imburgia<\/em>, 136 S. Ct. 463, 466 (2015) (\u201cThe Federal Arbitration Act therefore pre-empts and invalidates [any rule that class arbitration waivers make an arbitration provision unconscionable].\u201d); Oxford Health Plans LLC v. Sutter<\/em>, 569 U.S.564, 565 (2013) (\u201cClass arbitration is a matter of consent:  An arbitrator may employ class procedures only if the parties have authorized them.\u201d); AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion<\/em>, 563 U.S. 333, 347 (2011) (stating that Stolt-Nielsen<\/em> held that \u201cthe agreement at issue, which was silent on the question of class procedures, could not be interpreted to allow them\u201d); Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int\u2019l Corp.<\/em>, 559 U.S. 662, 684 (2010) (\u201c[A] party may not be compelled under the FAA to submit to class arbitration unless there is a contractual basis for concluding that the party agreed<\/em> to do so.\u201d); Jpay, Inc. v. Kobel<\/em>, 904 F.3d 923 (11th Cir. 2018); Catamaran Corp. v. Towncrest Pharmacy<\/em>, 864 F.3d 966 (8th Cir. 2017); Dell Webb Communities, Inc. v. Carlson<\/em>, 817 F.3d 867 (4th Cir. 2016); Opalinski v. Robert Half Intern. Inc.<\/em>, 761 F.3d 326 (3d Cir. 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

En lo que debe ser la iron\u00eda de todas las iron\u00edas en el mundo de las demandas colectivas y el arbitraje, el New York Times informa que las empresas que exigen a sus clientes que presenten sus reclamaciones en el arbitraje se est\u00e1n viendo afectadas por un \"arbitraje masivo\" en el que miles de clientes presentan demandas de arbitraje individuales al mismo tiempo. Ante miles de demandas de arbitraje...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-defect-case-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steinberglawfirm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}