Process Arbitrator
An AAA-appointed neutral who resolves administrative disputes before merits arbitrators are appointed.
The Process Arbitrator handles the questions that otherwise stall a mass filing: whether demands comply with filing requirements, how fees are allocated, how batching operates, and whether particular claimants belong in the proceeding at all. Determinations may be reviewed by a merits arbitrator under an abuse-of-discretion standard. The role concentrates threshold disputes in a single neutral rather than replicating them across thousands of individual cases.
See also
- Process AdministratorThe JAMS equivalent of a Process Arbitrator, charged with preliminary and administrative determinations.
- American Arbitration Association (AAA)The largest US arbitration provider, and the default forum named in most consumer clauses.
- Mass Filing ThresholdThe number of similar demands that triggers a provider's mass arbitration rules.
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