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A California appellate panel refused to enforce GEO's arbitration agreement because a confidentiality agreement signed in the same onboarding packet sent the employer's own likely claims to a Florida court. The clause was never read alone.
Drafting Desk · 15 min
Five years after abandoning consumer arbitration under the weight of 75,000 Alexa demands, Amazon reinstated it on 14 August 2026. The new clause is the most complete defence-side answer to mass arbitration yet drafted: a 60-day condition precedent, escalating JAMS batching, appeal rights on every batch, and a first-of-its-kind obligation to hand over litigation funding agreements.
Clause Desk · 4 min
The defence bar has converged on one point: mass arbitration is a drafting problem, and the drafting window closes the moment the first tranche is filed. What a clause reviewed with mass exposure in mind actually contains.
Practice Desk · 4 min