Re: Arbitration

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Lauren, you're absolutely right. It's becoming almost
impossible anymore to do or buy anything without being
required to sign away your right to use the courts. The line
where it truly becomes unconstitutional appears to be when
the government itself takes away this right...but in our
state, for example, home builder have made an arbitration
clause mandatory according to a home builders association
newsletter. If this is enforced by the state, then the state
is violating our 7th ammendment right to a jury trial. Many
home owners have been forced or suckered into arbitration,
not knowing what it REALLY was when they agreed to it. I
believe a full disclosure of who will arbitrate, that you
can't appeal in most cases, that it may come with a gag
order, and exactly how much it costs should be reqired at the
very least. Personally I feel arbitration has no place in
consumer-business disputes. When the disputes were between
corporations and the arbitrator was not for any one
particular corporation it may have been useful. But the
arbitration services are for corporations in general, and
biased against the consumer. The secrecy of arbitration
records is also appalling...how can consumers find out the
real truth about a company if the complaints are all hidden?

On 9/21/02, lauren wrote:
> Be careful when signing any agreement. We are all slowly
> losing our CONSITIONAL right to our trial by a jury of our
> peers by unwittingly signing contracts in which we waive
> our right to jury trial. By doing this we are giving the
> opposition the upper hand and we are losing the strongest
> leverage we have. THE POWER OF EXPOSURE!!! Arbitration is
> secret and the arbitrators have no accountability to the
> public as judges do. They can do what they want without
> fear of losing their position. Most of the arbitrators are
> hired and paid for by 'big business' and therefore have
> allegiance to them. Want to get a fair ruling through an
> arbitrator? Forget it! This most basic constitional right
> is eroding before our very eyes......and no one knows it.
> If Karen Silkwood had signed an arbitration
> agreement............people would still be dying!

Re: Arbitration, 10/02/02, by Cindy.

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