BACKGROUND MATERIALS

• Forced Arbitration: The Stealth War on Women’s Rights (NACA, Public Citizen & Fair Arbitration Now, March 2014)
• Banking on Arbitration (Pew, Nov 2012)
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Courthouse Doors Shut for Aggrieved Private Student Loan Borrowers (Public Citizen, July 2012)
• Armed Forces and Forced Arbitration (Public Citizen, Oct 2012)
• CFPB Arbitration Study – Preliminary Results (CFPB, Dec 2013)
• Righting a Financial Wrong: Debt Settlement Services, Private Student Lenders, and Auto Lenders Use Forced Arbitration to Escape Accountability When They Harm Consumers (Public Citizen, Feb 2014)

EVENTS

• Restoring Investor Rights – Capitol Hill Briefing (AFR, NASAA, Public Citizen, Oct 15, 2013)
• Stacking the Debt – Consumer Rights in the Financial Marketplace (AFR Conference, 10/17/12)

LETTERS AND STATEMENTS

• Joint Letter Praising the Investor Choice Act (Aug 2, 2013)
• CFPB Study Highlights Some of the Many Problems With Forced Arbitration (NCLC, USPIRG, NACA, Public Citizen, 2/12/13)
• Joint Letter to SEC on Use of Mandatory Arbitration by Carlyle Group (2/3/12)

ARTICLES & OPINION

• 9 Federal Laws That Companies Can Skirt By Using Forced Arbitration (Consumerist, Feb. 27, 2014)
• Feeling Ripped Off? Don’t Rely on the Street’s Arbitrators (Bloomberg, Feb. 14, 2014)
• When the Little Guy Gets Shut Out of Court (San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 20, 2014)
• Beware of Contracts That Take Away Your Rights (video) (Fox News, Jan. 15, 2014)
• Leveling the Legal Playing Field: Limit Forced Arbitration (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14, 2014)
• A Tool Consumers Need (New York Times, Dec. 29, 2013)
• The Arbitration Trap (Talking Points Memo, Dec. 27, 2013)
• When the Right To Sue Goes Away (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 26, 2013)
• Forced Arbitration is a Corporate Get-out-of-Jail Free Card (Jim Lardner, US News, Sep 6, 2013)