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You are here: Home / Arbitration / Court Decisions / Arbitration Process Issues / AFTER AMEX, MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT RECONSIDERS PRIOR DECISION FINDING CLASS WAIVER UNENFORCEABLE ON COST-PROHIBITIVE GROUNDS

AFTER AMEX, MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT RECONSIDERS PRIOR DECISION FINDING CLASS WAIVER UNENFORCEABLE ON COST-PROHIBITIVE GROUNDS

August 13, 2013 by Carlton Fields

On July 2, 2013, we reported on Feeney v. Dell Inc., which was issued eight days before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, and appeared to reach a result at odds with that decision. Specifically, while Amex held that individual arbitration could be compelled under the FAA based on a class waiver contract provision, notwithstanding that the cost of arbitration exceeded the potential recovery, Feeney had held that U.S. Supreme Court precedent precluded a class waiver under those circumstances. On August 1, 2013, the Feeney court granted a petition for rehearing, changing the result in its prior opinion, and reversing the lower court’s denial of a motion to confirm the underlying arbitration award, holding that “following Amex, our analysis in Feeney II no longer comports with the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the FAA.” Feeney v. Dell Inc., Case No. SJC-11133 (Mass. August 1, 2013).

This post written by Michael Wolgin.

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