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Wells Fargo Tries to Enforce Mandatory Arbitration in Phony Accounts Litigation

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank (WFC), one of the largest banks in the US, is trying to push its customers to resolve the lawsuits that they are bringing over the opening of unauthorized accounts through private arbitration, instead of in a courtroom, according to legal documents filed Wednesday. The bank asked the US District Court in Utah to order dozens of customers to settle their …


Lawsuit Might Be a Bonanza for Merritt, but It’ll Hit the Public in the Wallet

Reading the lawsuit makes your head throb. You don’t ache for the plaintiff, known forevermore as “falsely accused I-10 Freeway Shooter Leslie Merritt Jr.” Instead, you hurt for us, the taxpayers. That’s because someday soon the human wallets who comprise Arizona and Maricopa County’s taxpaying citizenry surely will pay Merritt and his cartel of fancy ambulance chasers a massive jackpot.