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An imbalance in access to remedies is how you get situations like that armored bulldozer in Colorado smashing buildings, or office shootings. The supreme court
by hwstar 11y ago
An imbalance in access to remedies is how you get situations like that armored bulldozer in Colorado smashing buildings, or office shootings. The supreme court justices are too far tilted to the right, hopefully this will change in a decade or two.
- vdaniuk 11y agoAn interesting fact: Marvin Heemeyer, the bulldozer guy, is a hero and a role model for a significant number of people (at least in social networks) in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
- pc86 11y agoYour irrelevant SCOTUS comment aside, we need to make sure we're comparing apples to oranges. From the article: > the judge ruled that Encore’s lawsuit to collect the debt was separate from Ms. Thompson’s case accusing the company of violating the law. Disregarding the fact that the original judge should not have awarded a debt that was past SOL, it seems perfectly reasonable to me that Encore taking action to collect a debt it purchased is a separate legal question from a claim that Encore is violating the law. I'm not saying they are related of course, but I have a feeling the arbitration agreement is pretty clear that if you want to sue Encore you have to use arbitration.
- hwstar 11y agoBinding arbitration is an affront on the seventh amendment of the US constitution. If binding arbitration didn't exist, then this party would have had recourse in a real court with a jury, not some privately funded arbitration judge. The reason that corporations like binding arbitration is that it eliminates the jury, and gets rid the option of the jury nullifying the law. Sometimes onerous laws get bought and paid for by corporations, and jury nullification is one of the few tools left to combat this.