Mandatory arbitration featured at the movies

A new movie called “Hot Coffee” is featured at Democracy Now. The new film:

looks at the stories of four people whose lives were devastated when they were denied access to the courtroom after being injured. The film documents how corporations have spent millions to promote the case for tort reform.

One of the main ways to keep injured people out of courtrooms is to use mandatory arbitration clauses, a topic I addressed here.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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