California Arbitration Act or the anti-exculpatory rule<\/a> discussed in the Gentry case.<\/p>\nIt is likely that California courts will still be bound by the Gentry decision and judges are likely to reject any attempt to enforce an exculpatory class-waiver clause since such would conflict with Gentry.<\/p>\n
The likely outcome is that defense firms and their clients will not be able to avoid class actions altogether but rather will need to choose between class wide litigation or class wide arbitration.<\/p>\n
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An arbitration ruling has recently been handed down from the U.S. Supreme Court in a case entitled Stolt-Nielsen v. Animal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[591],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbitration-agreement","tag-arbitration-agreemen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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