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ISDS courts are some of the worst ideas I've seen. Private legal systems that sit above any national government and routinely favor for profit corporations over
by CameronNemo 4y ago
ISDS courts are some of the worst ideas I've seen. Private legal systems that sit above any national government and routinely favor for profit corporations over humanitarian interests such as:
* labor rights, workplace safety
* public health
* environmental concerns, including but definitely not limited to the climate crisis
Phillip Morris has used ISDS courts to prevent governments from taking measures to reduce tobacco usage, for example.
- rodgerd 4y agoSimilarly, see the way that Chevron crippled electric car development by at least a decade, and used gagging orders to hide the fact that they'd done so, via ICC arbitration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#Chevron_Patent_Encumbrance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#Chevron_Patent_...
- gowld 4y agoChevron also bribed a pair of judges in Ecuador and New York to frame and jail an environmental lawyer who sued them for poisoning Ecuador with dumped oil. https://nacla.org/news/2021/08/25/ecuador-chevron-donziger https://nacla.org/news/2021/08/25/ecuador-chevron-donziger
- jcranmer 4y ago> Phillip Morris has used ISDS courts to prevent governments from taking measures to reduce tobacco usage, for example. I believe the correct characterization is "attempted to use", not used--I don't think the company ever got a successful ruling.
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- totetsu 4y agoThe CPTPP has an ISDS process as part of the treaty. I was interested to see in the NZ case at lest that "New Zealand can rule out cases relating to tobacco control measures." and "interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi subject to the dispute settlement mechanisms under CPTPP."