SouthTrust Bank v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an arbitration provision added to a customer's account agreement by notice was valid and enforceable
• holding that an arbitration provision added to a customer's account agreement by notice was valid and enforceable
• holding that the Alabama legislature in enacting Ala. Code § 5-20-5 “provided a procedure that differs in no material respect from the one [the credit card company] followed in this case”
• holding that a bank customer agreed to arbitrate any dispute with the bank when the customer continued to use his checking account after *Page 415 receiving notice from the bank that the bank had modified the account agreement to incorporate an arbitration provision
• observing that initial terms contained an express change- in-terms clause
• bank customer implicitly assented to be bound by amendment adding arbitration provision by maintaining account open after notified of amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).