[spriggan3]

It's difficult to understand how such clause is even legal to begin with. It basically sets up a "private" justice system for non criminal cases. That's insane. I get it, there are difference sort of tribunals. But it shouldn't be up to the corporations to decide where justice is supposed to be served.

[mmanfrin]

It's legal because the five justices who decided that money is speech decided that money now gets its own courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...

[the_watcher]

Not really. Arbitration has long been a path that judges recommend for non-criminal cases to reduce strain on the court system. I know that it can often seem nefarious, but a major part of the modern civil court system involves reducing the (frankly, unbelievable) strain on court resources, which are finite (and in many states, being reduced for budgetary reasons).

[pdabbadabba]

It's because Congress passed a law, called the Arbitration Act, allow explicitly allowing it. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/9/2