Mandatory Binding Arbitration Bites Back

    I'm a longtime critic of contracts that include clauses requiring customers or workers to agree to mandatory binding arbitration, which basically forbid customers or workers from filing class action and other lawsuits against the company. 

     I've walked away from car purchases rather than sign one. 

     Now the ill-fitting shoe is on the other foot, according to a story on The Verge website. It quotes the judge in the case:

"The employer here, DoorDash, faced with having to actually honor its side of the bargain, now blanches at the cost of the filing fees it agreed to pay in the arbitration clause. No doubt, DoorDash never expected that so many would actually seek arbitration. Instead, in irony upon irony, DoorDash now wishes to resort to a class-wide lawsuit, the very device it denied to the workers, to avoid its duty to arbitrate."