Anti-Arbitration Efforts Already Seeing Success
Thursday, July 31, 2008Below we listed the various pieces of legislation with anti-arbitration provisions that the American Association for Justice, the trial lawyers association, lobbied on in the second quarter. Included was H.R. 6124, the farm bill.
Doggone it if the language didn’t make it into the law: Public Law 110-234
Section 210 includes provisions that allow livestock and poultry producers to refuse contract provisions requiring arbitration.
`(a) In General.--Any livestock or poultry contract that contains a provision requiring the use of arbitration to resolve any controversy that may arise under the contract shall contain a provision that allows a producer or grower, prior to entering the contract to decline to be bound by the arbitration provision.
Bit by bit, you can chip away at arbitration and produce more litigation.
The full section is in the extended entry.
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