The recent switch by the Trump administration's U.S. Justice Department from opposing to defending bans on class actions in workplace arbitration agreements will have consequences beyond a trio of challenges the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear this fall. The government this week, citing the high court switch, said it will no longer defend a class action provision in the U.S. Labor Department's fiduciary rule.
July 06, 2017 at 12:19 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The government had a June 2 deadline for an appeal, but the deadline lapsed with no government action. On June 5, CMS proposed a rule revision that would eliminate provisions that prohibit binding pre-dispute arbitration.
This story was updated with additional information from court papers filed in the Fifth Circuit on Thursday.
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