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Congressmen join forces to end forced mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts

By Dee Thompson | Tuesday, Mar 21, 2017 @ 9:13am

WASHINGTON – On March 7, a Capitol Hill coalition of lawmakers including Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) convened to highlight the importance of ending forced mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts and introduced legislation to force companies to give consumers more options in the event of a dispute.
Director of research: Big business money for state Supreme Court elections leaves Texas - for now

By Deb Rogers | Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016 @ 5:33pm

AUSTIN – With Republicans holding all nine seats on the Texas Supreme Court, there probably will not be a lot of big business spending in that election in the near future, according to the director of research for legal progress at the Center for American Progress.