I am not an attorney, even though I think it would be fun to play one on Boston Legal, but I think this is pretty big…
It looks like the courts ruled Amway/Quixtar Arbitration "illusory and unenforceable".
In the recent past, if you sued Amway/Quixtar you went to arbitration and the arbiters were actually trained by Amway/Quixtar employees and high level distributor leaders, leaving little hope for a win against the company.
This ruling apparently tosses out arbitration.
More at AmQuix.info
Alticor's Response:
There was also a ruling this week in a separate case, known as Morrison, where an appeals court reversed and remanded an earlier lower court ruling. It’s the latest step in a long, long fight that we remain confident of winning. The ruling does not say that Morrison is right about any of his claims. It only says that he gets a do-over of the arbitration he lost in 2004.
And another important point: Contrary to some of the spinners out there, the ruling hinges on the fact that the dispute is so very old — beginning before 1998, before we even had an arbitration program. Therefore, [color=red]the effect of this ruling on our current arbitration program and current cases (a shrinking list, given the Nitro dismissal) is virtually zero. If someone’s telling you otherwise, don’t buy the hype.
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