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What The Shutts Opt-Out Right Is And What It Ought To Be, Brian Wolfman, Alan B. Morrison
What The Shutts Opt-Out Right Is And What It Ought To Be, Brian Wolfman, Alan B. Morrison
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article discusses the ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts, 472 U.S. 797 (1985), regarding the right of an absent class member to opt out of a class action. The article addresses both the current prevailing understanding of Shutts, which is based on the personal jurisdiction strain of due process jurisprudence, and what the authors believe is a more useful understanding, based on the property rights strain of due process jurisprudence. As an addendum to the article, the authors propose a new civil procedure rule governing class actions that would implement …
Beyond Unconscionability: Class Action Waivers And Mandatory Arbitration Agreements, J. Maria Glover
Beyond Unconscionability: Class Action Waivers And Mandatory Arbitration Agreements, J. Maria Glover
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
We live in an age of convenience. From financial transactions to electronic correspondence, we frequently deal with large corporations that provide services in our daily lives. One of the prices we pay for the convenience of these transactions, however, is that our commercial relationships increasingly are based on standard form contracts written by large corporations. While these standard form contracts are necessary to an economically efficient society, the growing use of mandatory arbitration provisions and clauses that prohibit class actions in these contracts raises the spectre of corporate abuse.