TY - BOOK AU - Bland,F.Paul ED - National Consumer Law Center. ED - Public Justice Foundation. TI - Consumer arbitration agreements: enforceability and other topics T2 - The consumer credit and sales legal practice series. Consumer litigation library SN - 9781602480964 AV - KF 9085 .Z9 .B53 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - National Consumer Law Center with the Public Justice Foundation KW - Arbitration agreements , Commercial KW - United States KW - Local KW - Consumer protection KW - Law and legislation N1 - Rev. ed. of Consumer arbitration agreements / F. Paul Bland, Jr. 5th ed. 2011; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary issues -- Threshold issues for challenges to arbitration clauses -- The Federal Arbitration Act, state laws, and preemption -- When other federal statutes expressly or impliedly supersede the FAA's enforcement of arbitration clauses -- Formation of agreement to arbitrate -- Unconscionability and other contract law defenses to arbitration clauses -- Arbitration clause's applicability to particular claims or parties -- Waiver of the right to compel arbitration -- Arbitration of claims on a classwide basis -- Judicial review and effect of the arbitration award -- Creditor's use of arbitration to collect consumer debts -- Appendix A. Federal statutes -- Appendix B. Arbitration service provider rules -- Appendix C. Sample discovery -- Appendix D. Findings of fact and stipulations regarding NAF ownership -- Appendix E. Finding pleadings and primary sources on the companion website ER -