{"id":6714,"date":"2024-12-20T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2025-01-03T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:29:19","slug":"legal-intelligencer-stacked-decks-and-sealed-deals-how-arbitration-tilts-the-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-stacked-decks-and-sealed-deals-how-arbitration-tilts-the-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Stacked Decks and Sealed Deals: How Arbitration Tilts the Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>While vigorous efforts have been made to push the courts to interpret the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) with an increasingly broad preemptive scope, effectively overriding state laws designed to regulate arbitration, recent decisions underscore that courts are not willing to uphold arbitration agreements when fairness and justice might be compromised. Legitimate concerns surrounding arbitration are prompting more judicial scrutiny\u2014a trend worth examining.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the December 20, 2024 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Edward Kang writes, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2024\/12\/20\/stacked-decks-and-sealed-deals-how-arbitration-tilts-the-scales\/\">Stacked Decks and Sealed Deals: How Arbitration Tilts the Scales.<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-stacked-decks-and-sealed-deals-how-arbitration-tilts-the-scales\/#more-6714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While vigorous efforts have been made to push the courts to interpret the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) with an increasingly broad preemptive scope, effectively overriding state laws designed to regulate arbitration, recent decisions underscore that courts are not willing to uphold arbitration agreements when fairness and justice might be compromised. 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