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The legal standard is, roughly, if the contract is "unconscionable".

The courts have repeatedly ruled that most arbitration agreements are enforcable.

The FTC has previously attempted rule making to invalidate predispute arbitration agreements, but a trump era Congress "disapproved" the rule. The solution at this point requires an act of Congress.

https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/ is my website where I try and summarise everything I know along with sources.



You might want to add contact info to your website.


Agreed.

I originally did not do so since it was incomplete and I was a bit worried about the association.

It's all in a public git repo so my name was never truly hidden. But now that I'm using it more, it does make sense to be more explicit about who runs the site and what "qualifications" I have.

It may not happed immediately but added to my TODO list.




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