Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Arbitration Fairness Act

Right now, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding an important hearing on the Arbitration Fairness Act -- legislation that would ban mandatory, binding arbitration clauses in consumer and employment agreements. (Click here to watch a live webcast of the hearing).  The witnesses include CL&P bloggers and arbitration experts Paul Bland and Richard M. Alderman and as well as Mark A. de Bernardo (a management-side employment lawyer at union-buster Jackson Lewis); Richard Naimark of the American Arbitration Association; pro-mandatory-binding-arbitration professor Peter Rutledge of Catholic University and Tanya Solov of the Illinois Secretary of State's Securities Department.  Our previous coverage of the Arbitration Fairness Act, and the battle over mandatory binding arbitration more generally, is available here.