The federal Department of Education recently issued new student loan regulations barring the use of pre-dispute arbitration clauses.
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Jeff Sovern
The article has drawn attention from other quarters as well. On August 3, 65 members of Congress joined in a letter supporting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed arbitration regulation, which quoted a letter from 210 law professors. The first article cited in the law professor letter is “Whimsy Little Contracts.” The article had previously been discussed by the CFPB in its 2015 Arbitration Report, and has been cited more than twenty times, including by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Morgan v. Sanford Brown Institute, — A.3d –, 225 N.J. 289 (2016).