This morning, starting at 10:30am, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommitee on Commercial and Administrative Law will hold a hearing entitled Mandatory Binding Arbitration Agreements: Are They Fair for Consumers? This hearing isn't tied to any specific legislative proposals, but it signals the increasing interest in this important issue on Capitol Hill.
The lineup is three pro-consumer witnesses and one corporate defense lawyer: our co-blogger Paul Bland of Public Justice, who has been leading the fight against BMA in the courts; Jordan Fogal, a consumer with an arbitration horror story; David Schwartz, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, who will be criticizing the Supreme Court's Federal Arbitration Act jurisprudence as inconsistent with the original Congressional intent; and Mark Levin, a partner at the same Philadelphia law firm as mandatory arbitration's architect-in-chief, Alan Kaplinsky.
You can watch a live video webcast of the hearing and read written testimony at this link.
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