Coffee giant Starbucks should stop requiring customers who use prepaid cards to give up their legal rights, consumer advocates say. Four groups – Public Citizen, Alliance for Justice, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and National Consumers League – called on Starbucks Coffee Company to remove the forced arbitration clause and class-action ban from the terms of service of its prepaid cards. Both of these policies limit consumer access to the courts.

In a time when corporations are running roughshod over ordinary Americans while spending millions to lobby Congress and fund political campaigns, consumers need more protections, not fewer.

Today Public Citizen released a report documenting unfair wireless industry practices and a number of ways that the industry escapes accountability for those practices.

Alliance for Justice released a report exposing repeated and aggressive efforts by the conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court to radically rewrite the laws governing arbitration in order to shield corporations from liability.