Published in new online journal: Minnesota Law Review Headnotes. Mandatory arbitration is a neologism that describes … the capacity of an economically stronger repeat player to impose an adhesive binding arbitration clause on the weaker … employment, consumer purchases, or health care. Employers and businesses adopt adhesive arbitration clauses as a means to manage …

other sanction, the case can be submitted to the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the tribunal designated by the USOC …, for “binding” arbitration. Once an arbitration decision has been handed down by the AAA, it can then be appealed to the … Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland, where it receives a de novo hearing. However, cases can be brought …

Until recently, it was understood that mandatory arbitration was a "do-it-yourself tort reform": corporate defendants …-dispute arbitration. But now that there is a significant possibility that Congress will amend the Federal Arbitration Act to make pre …-dispute arbitration clauses unenforceable, critics have been stymied by the re-emergence of an argument that mandatory arbitration is a …