Read about two studies that draw divergent conclusions on the fairness of arbitration here.
As the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 continues its slow journey through Congress, debate over the bill is escalating. Public Citizen and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, major voices respectively for and against the bill, have released battling analyses of identical data that either validates or conflicts with the assertion that arbitration favors corporations, depending on which group is analyzing it. Editorials, statistics and anecdotes have popped up in news outlets and blogs, discussing either the stress on the civil litigation system that will heighten if the bill
passes or the harm to individuals that will continue if it does not.
