Quote of the nonce

[tangaroa]

From Thexalon at Soylent News on the Epic Systems decision:

With this decision, SCOTUS has basically made large businesses completely above the civil laws of the United States. They've replaced the court system with the private system of binding arbitration, a fake court in which there is no jury and the big business in question gets to pick the judge. And guess what the standard they use to pick the judge is.

If you as an individual make any kind of contract with a large business for any reason from here on out, remember that you have absolutely no recourse to the law if they screw you over. In AT&T v Concepcion [wikipedia.org], in which SCOTUS (with a somewhat different lineup than this SCOTUS) said that businesses can in their contracts with customers ban class action lawsuits and force cases into arbitration, even if the state laws say they can't. Now, with this case, the same rules apply to employees. And these kinds of clauses are also common in contracts with small companies too.