Concepcion, the Court allowed companies to evade class actions by directing their contractual partners into individual arbitration proceedings.

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Kraft and Starbucks began arbitration proceedings late last month as Kraft tried to prevent Starbucks from ending the agreement.

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Unhappy about this turn of events, in 2001 DPTG initiated binding arbitration proceedings provided for in its contract with Polish Telecom.

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"Although the actual arbitration proceedings are the subject of confidentiality, as night follows day what's in that legal document at the High Court will form the basis for the legal argument at the arbitration, " said Cramer.

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One of the first things he needed from FINRA was an audio recording, standard procedure, of the 21 hours of proceedings from the arbitration so he could review his options with an attorney.

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Also, more franchisers rewrote arbitration clauses so as to exempt class-action proceedings.

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The plaintiffs say the arbitration agreement prevents them from cooperating in any way and makes the proceedings of any one case confidential and sealed to the others.

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Also, in any argument where the stakes are high, journalists have usually covered the story before an arbitration claim has been filed, and they don't stop doing so once proceedings start.

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Sapir's marathon legal proceedings--the 26th judicial hearing in the MOR dispute, an arbitration in London, begins in secrecy in May--opens a window on an enduring feature of Russian life: the bitter battles between clans of politicians and business leaders.

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