The battle against mandatory binding arbitration |
Wednesday, 14 June 2006 |
Virgin Islands Daily News
Bill revisits past battles over worker arbitation
Labor advocates say those agreements give too much power to the employers and should not be a condition of employment. Serious personal injury cases need the time, processes and protections guarenteed by the court process, they agrue, and employees desperate for a job should not be forced to sign away those protections. Read More... |
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Consumer Affairs: Texas Court Invalidates KB Home's Forced Arbitration |
Thursday, 18 May 2006 |
Texas Homeowners Can Now Sue KB Home for Construction Defects The settlement means that all binding arbitration clauses in KB Home agreements are invalid and homeowners can now sue KB Home in a court of law rather than being forced into binding arbitration over construction defects...Despite these agreements and fines, HomeOwners for Better Building (HOBB), a non-profit group, says it has obtained information that confirms KB Home has once again disregarded the FTC consent order and the terms of the new class action settlement even before the ink was dry. See copy of documents â KBâs warranty provider request for binding arbitration, March 30, 2006: KB Defies FTC |
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Class Action Settled - KB Home defies FTC Consent Order! |
Thursday, 18 May 2006 |
Texas Court Finalizes KB Home Arbitration Class Action Lawsuit Laredo District Court Judge Solomon Casseb Tuesday approved a court supervised class action settlement of Timothy D. Pruitt vs. KB Home, which prohibits KB Home from requiring past, present or future customers to consent to mandatory binding arbitration for the settlement of warranty claims...Last month HomeOwners for Better Building obtained documents which appear to confirm that KB Home has again disregarded the FTC consent order and the terms of the of the new class action settlement. While under the court provisional certification of the class action, the company referred at least one homeowner with major foundation problems to its third party warranty provider Home of Texas, who denied the claim and notified the homeowner to submit to Binding Arbitration, conducted by Construction Arbitration Services (CAS). See copy of documents â KBâs warranty provider request for binding arbitration, March 30, 2006: KB Defies FTC PRWEB Webhttp://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb386981.htm |
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No Binding Arbitration for KB homeowners |
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 |
KB Home settlement approved People who bought a house from KB Home in the past 10 years will not have to submit to binding arbitration in warranty disputes, according to an agreement between the builder and plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. "We are pleased that the court gave its approval of the Pruitt settlement," said Cathy Teague, a spokeswoman for KB Home Lone Star's San Antonio office. "This closes a chapter on terms favorable to our customers and our company." Janet Ahmad, president of HomeOwners for Better Building, said KB Home is now the only builder barred from requiring buyers to sign such agreements but that she hopes other builders will follow suit. |
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Homeowners can sue KB Home |
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 |
Settlement allows homeowners to sue KB Home A Laredo judge finalized a court decision Tuesday that allows owners of homes made by KB Home to file lawsuits against the company...The settlement is a victory for consumers, said Janet Ahmad of San Antonio, president of home-builder watchdog group Homeowners for Better Building. Her group has often decried arbitration clauses in contracts as unfair to homeowners. "They are the only builder in the nation that cannot require binding arbitration," she said. |
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Dallas Morning News - KB Home agrees to drop arbitration from warranties |
Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
KB Home agrees to drop arbitration from warranties KB Home agreed Wednesday to drop binding arbitration from its customer warranties as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement... Opponents of binding arbitration say it puts an unfair burden on buyers because the arbitration process can be expensive and the proceedings do not afford the same rights to parties as a court would. KB Home agreed to modify the existing warranties of tens of thousands of homeowners, who will be notified by mail, the newspaper reported. The option of arbitration will remain available to owners. |
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HOBB Press Release - KB Home Settles Unprecedented Arbitration Class Action Case |
Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
KB Home Settles Class Action Binding Arbitration Case The settlement Wednesday of a class-action lawsuit against KB Home over a binding arbitration clause in homebuyerâs warranties will affect thousands of Texas homeowners...With the settlement of this class-action suit it effectively declares that KB Home and its subsidiaries binding arbitration clauses are invalid, and that homeowners can now sue KB Home in a court of law rather than being forced into binding arbitration over construction defects. |
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AP Wire: KB Home settles class-action and drops arbitration |
Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
KB Home agrees to drop arbitration from warranties KB Home agreed Wednesday to drop binding arbitration from its customer warranties as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement. |
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ABC News - Fine Print May Waive Legal Rights |
Wednesday, 02 March 2005 |
Mandatory Arbitration Clauses Reduce Consumer Rights
When American consumers sign contracts â for credit cards, bank loans, mortgages or telephone service â language in the fine print often waives their right to employ the full extent of the law should the company violate the contract...The fine print of many contracts says consumers "waive the right to go to court" to resolve any disputes about a product or service. They are instead committed to binding arbitration... Claybrook says the system is flawed. "The process completely favors the corporation," she said. "The corporation does repeat business with the arbitration company and if the company routinely finds in favor of consumers or gives large awards to consumers, they don't get used again." |
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Are You Next by Jordan Fogal |
Sunday, 06 February 2005 |
ARE YOU NEXT? The Many Levels of Texas Bureaucracy By Jordan Fogal |
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Outstanding article from Off the Kuff |
Friday, 04 February 2005 |
Off the Kuff Building influence Here's an interesting article from the This Week section of the Chron regarding an acrimonious and public battle between a disgruntled homebuyer named Jordan Fogal and the builder who constructed her house, Tremont Homes... Let's start with the baseless attack on civil juries, something that I've noted before. Just once, I'd like to see a reporter ask someone who offers such an opinion if they hold similar feelings about juries in criminal trials... Attacking juries like this is cynical, dishonest, and really quite insulting, since after all everyone reading this is a potential juror. That this now seems to be a standard talking point for the homebuilding industry certainly doesn't give me any faith in their preferred system of arbitration...But what really gets me is the last quoted sentence. The lawyer for the builders is also an arbitrator for the AAA, which is the group used to rule on these builder/buyer disputes. |
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