Supreme Court vs. Consumers: Justice Ginsburg Left Fighting Alone For 'Ordinary People'

After spending several years clearing a path for corporations to contract away their customers' access to courts generally and class actions in particular, the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning returned to the business docket to pull out a pesky pro-consumer weed. The issue in CompuCredit v. Greenwood is whether a company may bar the courtroom doors to consumers seeking relief under a 1996 federal...