Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration In DirectTV Case

An anonymous reader sends word that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-3 decision that DirecTV’s service agreement barring mass arbitration by its customers must be enforced. The NYTimes reports: "The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that dissatisfied customers of DirecTV in California could not band together in a class action and must instead pursue individual arbitrations. The decision, by a 6-to-3 vote, was the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions that have made it harder for consumers to go to court to pursue claims of fraud and defective products."

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Re:"DDOS" the justice system?

[hairyfeet]

Cases like this is what small claims court was designed for. It costs very little to file, you don't need a lawyer, and because its capped at 5K in most places often the corp will just pay up instead of spending the money to argue the case. Its one of the few places where the legal system actually gives an advantage to the little guy and it sounds like where these cases need to be.