John W. Black Examines the U.S. Supreme Court's Highly-Anticipated Ruling in AT&T v. Concepcion

[Editor's Note: John W. Black is an associate with Jorden Burt LLP, resident in its Washington, DC office, and the blogmaster of Jorden Burt's reinsurance and arbitration blog, www.reinsurancefocus.com, where this article first appeared. This article does not constitute legal or other professional advice or service by Jorden Burt LLP and/or its attorneys.]

In AT&T v. Concepcion, the United States Supreme Court considered the validity of an arbitration provision that provided for the arbitration of all disputes between the parties to a contract, but required that claims be brought in the parties' "individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or …