Franklin v. Cnty. of Kalamazoo

How courts have described this case

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• the challenger “bear[s] the burden of showing that individual arbitration would be prohibitively expensive, and that it is likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the prohibitive costs will actually be incurred”
• “Because arbitration is a matter of contract, whether an arbitration provision is valid is a matter of state contract law, and an arbitration provision may be invalidated by generally applicable contract defenses, such as fraud, duress, or unconscionability[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).