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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “How treacherously we have strayed from the principle that arbitration is a matter of consent, not coercion.”

On the recordDecember 31, 2017
How treacherously we have strayed from the principle that arbitration is a matter of consent, not coercion.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
New York

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Commenting on the coercive nature of arbitration in legal matters.

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