Mobile-Home Mania? Protecting Procedurally Fair Arbitration in a Consumer Microcosm
By Amy J. Schmitz, February 8, 2012
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The author challenges the procedural sufficiency of arbitrations involving mobile home disputes. Arbitration provisions governing disputes over mobile home defects overwhelmingly favor the institutional defendants over the low-income mobile homeowners. Existing federal and state laws result in arbitration clauses being enforced regardless of the power differentials obviously present. A possible solution to increase fairness is expanding the Mobile Home Improvement Act to provide minimal procedural and remedial standards in arbitrations.
