General Mills Says If You 'Like' Cheerios On Facebook, You Can No Longer Sue
General Mills, makers of Cheerios, Chex and lots of other cereals, has updated some legalese to say if you do absolutely anything related to its cereals -- including liking them on Facebook, or buying them -- you give up your right to go to court.
Via Techdirt:
Three years ago when the Supreme Court ruled in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, basically allowing binding arbitration clauses in contracts to exclude class action suits, we noted that it was an unfortunate pitting of a broken class action system against a broken arbitration system. Both arbitration and class action lawsuits may have some good features -- and the concepts behind each sound good, but both have been abused to extreme levels. On the class action side, often these lawsuits have little to do with righting wrongs, and very much to do with big paydays for lawyers (and some companie...