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· 3/9/2005

In Re Currency Conversion Fee Antitrust Litigation

Citations

  • 361 F. Supp. 2d 237
  • 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3643
  • 2005 WL 546434

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that arbitration clauses signed by putative class members after litigation was commenced could not be enforced
  • holding that putative class members who had “forfeit[ed] their rights as potential plaintiffs” by signing arbitration agreements were protected as of the filing date of the case
  • holding that \serious disputes about material facts... require an evidentiary hearing\
  • finding that communications were potentially coercive where class members were reliant on the defendants for their future credit needs as well as information about the litigation
  • explaining that “putative class members' rights” are “protected as of the filing date of the complaint” in a class action.
  • holding a mid-litigation arbitration agreement was unconscionable because it tethered plaintiff’s only source for credit needs upon withdrawing from class action

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Judges: Pauley

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