User:RJaguar3/Bartholet

A controversy arose regarding Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet's service as an arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum. Bartholet arbitrated 24 cases during her service with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) from 2003 to 2004. Bartholet alleged that the NAF curtailed her participation as an NAF arbitrator, removing her from 11 cases, following a decision where she awarded $48,000 to a consumer in a debt collection case. Bartholet testified that she only heard four more NAF cases afterwards.

The National Arbitration Forum said that businesses chose to strike Bartholet as an arbitrator in accordance with the NAF rules allowing each party the opportunity to strike one arbitrator.