Who publishes this

The publisher

Forced Arbitration is a service of Madgett Law, LLC, a Minnesota law firm. David J.S. Madgett, Minnesota Bar No. 390494, writes it and is responsible for its content.

Why a law firm built it

Arbitration clauses decide, in advance, where a dispute with a business is heard. In a national telephone survey of credit-card holders run by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a majority of respondents whose agreements contained a pre-dispute arbitration clause said they did not know whether they could sue their card issuer in court (report § 1.2). Madgett Law, LLC reads consumer contracts and public arbitration data as part of its practice, and this site is where that reading is published, with its sources attached.

This site is general information about arbitration clauses and public data about them. It is not legal advice about your situation, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Contacting Madgett Law, LLC through this site does not, by itself, make you a client. We represent you only if we both sign a written engagement agreement.

What this site is not

• Not an accusation. What this site says about a named company comes from a source named where it is used: the company's own document, quoted word for word and dated; a court record; or public data published by an arbitration provider or a government agency. Where we sort clauses into categories, the method is on the Methodology page. We make no claim about any company's motives, and we do not say any company acted unlawfully; where a court used a word, we quote the court and name the case.
• Not a claim intake. There is no form on this site. If that changes in a later phase, this page and the disclaimer will say so before any form appears.
• Not the government. Madgett Law, LLC is a private law firm, not a regulator, and this site is not affiliated with one.

Sources and corrections

Company contracts on this site are quoted word for word, either from a dated copy we fetched and recorded or from a court record. A copy we fetched came from the company’s own site, from a government agency’s website such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s credit card agreement database, or from a dated archival snapshot, and each document’s page in the clause database says which. Where the report quotes a company document from a court record, it names the case. Every figure comes from a named source. If you find an error, tell us. We will check it against the source, and if we got it wrong we will correct it, date the correction, and say what changed. See Corrections. See Methodology for how documents were captured and verified.

Contact

Reach Madgett Law, LLC at 612-470-6529 or [email protected]. IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Suite 1650, Minneapolis, MN 55402.