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Title: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice Source: NY Times

*Author: * JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/jessica_silvergreenberg/index.html and ROBERT GEBELOFF http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/robert_gebeloff/index.html

*Date:* Nov 2, 201*5*

*Summary:* On Page 5 of a credit card contract used by American Express, beneath an explainer on interest rates and late fees, past the details about annual membership, is a clause that most customers probably miss. If cardholders have a problem with their account, American Express explains, the company “may elect to resolve any claim by individual arbitration.” Those nine words are at the center of a far-reaching power play orchestrated by American corporations, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

*Link: *nyti.ms/1XLSB4n

also: In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’

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