United States Eleventh Circuit

An arbitration agreement that bars pursuit of classwide relief for Truth In Lending Act violations is not necessarily unenforceable for that reason.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/13/2001
• Published 03/13/2001

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, CARNES and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph M. Sellers, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC, C. Knox McLaney, III, McLaney & Associates, PC, Montgomery, AL, Angela L. Kimbrough, McLaney & Associates, P.C., The Law Offices of Angela L. Kimbrough, Tuscaloosa, AL, Lynn Wilson Jinks, III, Jinks, Smithart, Jackson & Daniel, Union Springs, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., John C. Bell, Jr., Bell & James, P.C., Augusta, GA, for National Association of Consumer Advocates, Amicus Curiae., Deborah M. Zuckerman, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC, for AARP, Amicus Curiae., Alan S. Kaplinsky, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, PA, for Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. of America, Amicus Curiae., Eric J. Mogilnicki, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for American Financial Services Association, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul J. Zidlicky, Carter G. Phillips, Sidley & Austin, Washington, DC, Robert A. Huffaker, Rachel Sanders-Cochran, Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.