Erin Brokovich

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When the legal team are preparing their case against PG&E, they are told that PG&E want to go to binding arbitration rather than a jury hearing. But a few minutes' later, we are told that PG&E are demanding that 90% of the plaintiffs need to sign up to the arbitration process for it to go ahead, rather than the usual 70%. Am I missing something here? It seems that PG&E initially want arbitration, but then try to make it hard for that arbitration to go ahead.

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Masry & Vititoe propose arbitration as a quicker way of going about the case, as a full court case could have resulted in them being buried in paperwork. PG&E requested 90% acceptance from the plaintiffs in order to slow down the entire process. As we see in the film, Masry & Vititoe got 100% of the 634 plaintiffs in agreement.