Announced immediately after they updated their terms to require forced arbitration and removes all your rights to sue for damages.
HOW FUCKING CONVENIENT.
Throw your roku devices in the trash.
I don’t think those terms are binding in court.
they aren’t.
Arbitration clauses are very binding in court.
But asking a party to amend the contract after you’re in breach and the other party doesn’t know it is a good way to get your contract rewritten by the court or worse.
Depends on the court, but the problem is you have to go to court to challenge whether the arbitration clause is valid. Usually it’s less expensive just to engage with arbitration.
Well, now there’s 576k people who can do it as a class action :)
I don’t remember signing any contract.
Then you’ve never used a Roku.
I think forced arbitration should be illegal. I’m suing an old employer. They had an arbitration clause hidden in the contract. It just allows them to ignore federal Eeoc laws since they can just arbitrate it.
It just allows them to ignore federal Eeoc laws since they can just arbitrate it.
That sounds suspect. EEOC is federal. I find it doubtful a company can simply choose to opt-out of those laws.
They can. The Feds can sue on behalf of you but thy rarely do. They admitted in writing they ignore the ada since they can’t be sue. Judge still forced it to arbitration.
When I talk about working with senators. This is one of the topics I’m discussing. Federal laws should not be forced into arbitration. It allows companies to abuse federal law
Agreed. Forced arbitration is so shady…
Arbitration should only be allowed when you get something for it. They’ll give you 10k for going to arbitration or something. Otherwise it’s just abusive or you get to pick the arbitrator.
It’s like they do everything they can to destroy their reputation as much as possible.
