Business lobby prods 9th Circuit to revisit decision curbing consumer arbitration [telecom]

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By Alison Frankel

(Reuters) - I told you that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was going to get blowback from its June 28 rulings in a trio of cases in which plaintiffs claimed they couldn't be forced into arbitration because they sought injunctions against corporate defendants. That resistance has arrived: The Chamber of Commerce and other business and employer groups have just submitted amicus briefs calling on the 9th Circuit to reconsider decisions that, in the views of these amici, eviscerate mandatory arbitration provisions.