Posted on 04/28/2011 1:41:05 PM PDT by Nachum
San Francisco - The US Supreme Court has granted a whopping victory to AT&T, the US Chamber of Commerce, and supportive corporations, by reversing previous court decisions that had prevented corporations from requiring individual arbitration of customers' complaint. By issuing its 5-4 decision on Wednesday, the Court has essentially stripped away individuals' rights to band together in class-action lawsuits should a corporation choose to include an arbitration requirement in its contracts or
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My credit card was sued several years ago. I got a 38 cent credit to my bill. The lawyers got 3 million dollars. My annual fee went up $5 the next year.
yes - my bad. But as you say you waive your right your bound by that agreement
I have a better idea. Send the officers of the company to jail.
In a publically traded company, the officers are using OPM - other people’s money. They aren’t necessarily compensated for good strategic decision-making, but for meeting performance goals based on either quarterly or annual sales, profit, or stock price targets.
If officers of public companies, and if more politicians, went to jail, there would be less bullshit happening to the economy.
I’m talking Pelican Bay time, not country club penitentiary time either.
and your little Demonrat political toadies, too.
I understand that and they should have dealt with the tort lawyers; but they are punishing the public.
You are real good with the name calling aren’t you.
I am referring to phone and I pad prices and things the phone companies don’t tell you about until it’s to late. You are expected to abide by their contracts; but they can screw you out of all kinds of money. They can lie; but you have to pay the price. If I am wrong; I apologize.
San Francisco - The US Supreme Court has granted a whopping victory to AT&T,”
In the first paragraph of the posted article.
Sounds good to me.
Too bad. I hate to brag but I got a check yesterday for $1.60 as settlement against Chase for a class action suit I didn’t even know I was part of.
We also know of cases where companies lower dividends which is a way of passing on increased costs to the shareholders.
So it is entirely possible that a company can be fined for misbehaving and NOT pass those costs onto its employees (by firing them or lowering their wages) or onto its customers through price hikes.
It might actually end up being a hit to their bottom line which causes them to rethink their poor behavior.
Imagine that!
Lawyers may by and large be human scum, but plenty of scum rises to the top of corporate hierarchies, and plenty of scum are ready and waiting to be their useful idiotic apologists.
Amendment [VII] In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
5-4 decision. How they voted is important to note:
“The Court’s 18-page decision was written by Justice Antonin Scalia and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas, who also supplied his own six-page concurring opinion.
Justice Steven Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan by, provided a 12-page dissenting opinion.”
So now I have a DSL modem which may only work for a few months or maybe years depending on what AT&T decides.
Oh, and that was just part of a very long contract in very small print. At the bottom was language to the effect "You have to abide by this contract at all times, but we reserve the right to change any part at any time regardless of its impact on you our dear customer."
There is a reason why people are willing to sue ATT for a measly $30 bucks.
They even mentioned how the 14th amendment which was meant to protect the rights of all U.S. citizens has been used many more times to defend the right of corporations to be treated as legal persons.
I would love it if we could strip corporations of their legal personhood status and get at the officers directly for their crimes and deceits. But that will most likely require an amendment to the constitution.
You should see how they operate with cell phones. You are aware they can take your money even hundreds of dollars without telling you anything.
This will go a long way towards defunding the Democratic Party. Something like a quarter of their funding comes from the filthy blood suckers of the plaintiff’s bar, and among them the biggest donors are the class action pirates. These greedy people are pure scum, and the prospect of their impending bankruptcy is delightful.
So? Tough s**t. Go elsewhere, or do without.
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