In April 2011, another Supreme Court decision, AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, permitted corporations to end-run class-action suits, forcing disgruntled consumers to enter into individual arbitration, instead. Class-action suits have long been crucial instruments of worker and consumer resistance to discriminatory, deceptive, or fraudulent corporate behavior, from underpaying and overcharging to polluting or violating health and safety laws. These have now been effectively neutered.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 299