Wall Street Journal
November 14, 2007

 

Arbitrary Arbitration or Choice to Sue?

Americans should not have to waive their Seventh Amendment right to a jury in order to enter a nursing home, receive medical care, accept a job or buy a home. In scores of cases, Americans have been victimized by corporations that bury these clauses deep in contracts and choose the arbitrator. Frequently, the cost of arbitration exceeds an individual's resources and he or she will simply forgo pursuing justice. For corporations, imposing pre-dispute, binding mandatory arbitration is profitable. But for consumers, it is a pernicious business, and one that should be outlawed.

Rosemary Shahan
President
Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety
Sacramento, Calif.

 

 

More letters, plus link to earlier Wall Street Journal Editorial “Party at Ralph [Nader]’s,” touting the supposed benefits of allowing companies to impose their own rigged, privatized system of “justice” as a condition of providing a product or service:

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119500931855892356.html?mod=googlenews_wsj