Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale

The right kind of automation.

Cory Doctorow

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“Binding arbitration waivers” started out as a way for giant companies going into business with one another to avoid costly litigation by agreeing in advance to have a private arbitrator hear their disputes.

But Federalist Society judges, led by Antonin Scalia, spent a decade dismantling protections that…

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