The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this year strengthening arbitration provisions in contracts might not be the death knell for consumer class actions that many had feared.

While plenty of judges have rejected would-be class actions in the wake of AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, a Florida federal judge has struck down a move by four banks to force consumers into arbitration over overdraft fees. And San Francisco lawyers at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein couldn’t be happier about it.

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