Is Food the Next Frontier For Mandatory Arbitration?

The onslaught of food labeling and false advertising class actions in recent years may lead food makers to explore whether arbitration could provide some relief, but consumers’ fierce reaction in April to General Mills’ short-lived online arbitration provision raises questions about arbitration’s viability in the food context.

Negative public relations may prove to be a larger obstacle for use of mandatory arbitration in the food realm than any legal hurdle, practitioners and professors told BNA in a series of interviews in April and May.

General Mills’ About-Face.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 79 ...