Consumers are being sued on old debt by debt collectors who purchase receivables. When they tried to sue for illegal practices, courts are enforcing inapplicable arbitration clauses in the original contract. Read it here.
This is cruelly unfair -- exactly the sort of flummery that the late Department of Labor Associate Chief Judge James Guill and I warned about in 1989 Judge's Journal article, "A Rush to Unfairness -- the Downside to Alternative Dispute Resolution."
In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
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