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Comments of Over 100 Organizations Supporting the Petition for Rulemaking to Require Meaningful Consumer Consent to Arbitration

November 14, 2023

We gratefully support and applaud the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) continued efforts to vigorously protect consumers. Our organizations, representing millions of consumers, write in support of the recent petition for a rulemaking to address the fine print trap posed by forced arbitration clauses, which give companies that violate the law a get-out-of-jail-free card, blocking…

Digital Library: Overcoming the Latest Supreme Court Arbitration Decision

July 17, 2023

A June 23 Supreme Court ruling in Coinbase creates yet another impediment to consumer litigation—that even when a consumer defeats an arbitration requirement, if the defendant then pursues an interlocutory appeal of that ruling, discovery and all other aspects of the case are automatically put on hold until that appeal is resolved. This NCLC Digital Library article,…

Coalition Letter to COPRAC Regarding Draft Formal Opinion No. 19-0003

March 3, 2023

As organizations that advocate for workers and consumers, California Employment Lawyers Association, Economic Security Project Action, National Consumer Law Center, National Employment Law Project, Open Markets Institute, People’s Parity Project, Public Good Law Center, Public Justice, Student Borrower Protection Center, and Towards Justice write to urge the State Bar Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and…

Supplemental Comments Regarding Proposed Amendments to Rule 30(B)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

March 29, 2019

These comments respond to alternative proposals for the Advisory Committee on Civil Rule and it's Rule 30(b)(6) Subcommittee.

Comments to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and its Rule Subcommittee

January 3, 2019

The National Consumer Law Center and the National Association of Consumer Advocates submitted comments to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and its Rule 30(b)(6) Subcommittee pursuant to its invitation for comment on the proposed amendments to Civil Rule 30.

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