Raped woman forced to arbitrate
Something is dead wrong here when a woman who has been raped by Cheney's organization (KBR/Halliburton) is forced to seek justice in arbitration (which almost always favors the company) instead of in the courts and the Justice Department once more turns a blind eye on wrongdoing by Cheney/Bush friends:
... the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, the U.S. Army doctor who examined her turned over the rape examination kit, thought to contain useful evidence, to KBR officials. In the letter, Nelson also asked for an investigation to determine how many rape examinations were performed by U.S. military doctors in Iraq, and what was being done to ensure the cases were prosecuted.In a separate letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Nelson asked why there has been no criminal prosecution in the case of the alleged Florida victim. The woman, reportedly now 41, has alleged she was raped in her living quarters. She has sued KBR and Halliburton in civil court, but the judge ordered the case into private arbitration.
Contacted Thursday, the woman's lawyer said the rules of arbitration prohibit her from discussing the case or making her client available for an interview.
posted by walldon | 9:42 AM
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People who have no choice but to accept arbitration agreements if they want a job are being abused horribly. The real intent of policies favoring arbitration was to get as many business-to-business disputes out of the courts as possible -- a noble enough cause when there's relatively equal bargaining power. But not in employment, probably under any circumstances where the person is making less than, say, $1million per year. That's what we get, though, with Republican judges: it's a by-product of the so-called "tort reform" movement.
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