AAA moratorium on new cases since July 09?

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http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/debt/fight-for-your-credit-card-rights/

The American Arbitration Association has had a moratorium on consumer debt-collection arbitration since July 2009 because the program “showed weaknesses” in the arbitration process, according to the group.

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That is true for creditor initiated suits, the main "weakness argument" is a high amount of non-participation by debtors in the process. If a debtor MTC's Arbitration per the contract, or exercises arbitration provisions then it is hard to argue that a debtor is not willing to participate. Debtor's are still able to arbitrate in AAA against business's, including credit card companies, if they initiate.