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Customers’ Efforts to Use Arbitration to Challenge AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Fail

Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)/October 31, 2011 /Leave a comment

Federal district courts around the country have blocked AT&T Mobility LLC customers from pursuing arbitration to challenge the merger of AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc.—a transaction valued at approximately $39 billion. At least four federal district courts have granted AT&T Mobility’s motions for preliminary injunctions, and a fifth federal district court did not reach the motion…

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Enforceability of Class-Arbitration Bans Still an Open Question

Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)/March 15, 2011 /Leave a comment

Including an arbitration agreement in a commercial or consumer contract that requires your customer to pursue only individual claims in the arbitral forum will not necessarily protect you from class-wide arbitration. You will need to ensure that individual arbitration will allow your customers to enforce their statutory rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New…