1.0 link 193201 <![CDATA[Consumer Protection Measure Introduced In Senate]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/consumer-protection-measu_n_193201.html Sen Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would prevent companies from forcing consumers and employees into arbitration agreements. Arbitration clauses pop up in contracts for things as small as cell phones and as big as jobs.

At a press conference on the Hill, victims of tragedies made worse by forced arbitration shared their stories. One of them, Jamie Leigh Jones, provided a statement saying she was gang-raped by her Halliburton subsidiary co-workers in Baghdad in 2005. When...

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