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Feb. 20, 2018

Anti-arbitration letter sent by attorneys general to Congress doesn’t hold up

This is especially true because the letter relies on a bit of sophistry. Their arguments do not withstand scrutiny.

Michael H. Leb

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U Michigan Law School

THE NEUTRAL CORNER is a monthly column discussing recent cases or topics of interest from a neutral's perspective.

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Last week, in an almost-unprecedented show of bi-partisanship, the attorneys general of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, signed a letter to Congress asking for legislation prohibiting employers from requiring employees claiming sexual harassment to pursue those claims in arbitration.

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