SCOTUS Majority Leaves Contract Interpretation to Arbitrator
June 30, 2003
Is class arbitration permissible even if the loan contract’s arbitration clause does not specifically allow or forbid it? And who decides the question? A deeply divided Supreme Court of the United States this month vacated a South Carolina Supreme Court ruling and sent the 1995 case, Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, back to arbitration.