A federal consumer protection agency has locked horns with Wall Street over whether the financial service industry's widespread practice of requiring consumers to submit toarbitrationandgive up their right to a jurytrialis constitutional. As a class, we will use this debate as an opportunity to practice dissecting and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each side's argument:

2. Read the positions of each side of the debate:
   • T(Links to an external site.)he Consumer Financial Protection Bureau(Links to an external site.) https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-study-finds-that-arbitration-agreements-limit-relief-for-consumers/
   • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce(Links to an external site.)(Links to an external site.) https://www.uschamber.com/lawsuits/arbitration/protecting-consumers-right-arbitration
5. Evaluate the structure and merits of each argument, contributing your assessment and appropriate rationale from the readings to the discussion.
7. You are also encouraged to scan the news for a pertinent story or opinion piece and weave it into the discussion, commenting on itsrelevancebecauseof content or because of a similar argument structure to the arguments presented in the two readings.