During the past 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly interpreted the Federal Arbitration Act (or FAA) to require courts to enforce nearly all arbitration agreements between private parties, regardless of the parties' relative resources or bargaining power, the public's interest in the parties' dispute, or the myriad ways that forced arbitration serves to "stack the deck of justice" in favor of moneyed corporations, as the New York Times explained in a 2015 feature series.