The right to a civil jury still matters in Pennsylvania: Superior Court again refuses to enforce terms of service that do not put consumers on adequate notice that, by agreeing to arbitration, they are waiving a constitutional right to trial by jury
#law #contracts #arbitration #litigation #juries #TermsOfService
https://www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/03/pennsylvania-the-cutting-edge-of-arbitration-law/
Just confirms my opinion how happy I am to be a citizen of the European Union, where democratic institutions and independent courts protect us relatively successfully from corporate greed and abuse, even from US corporations and megalomaniacs like Edolf Muskler and his corrupt friends who try to undermine our democracies and our laws just like they are used to do at home.
But it's high time to completely cut those tech broligarch out of our continent and regain complete digital souvereignty. They are a cancer to every society.
The point of the whole matter is that the legal framework and the structure of US law puts consumers (just like workers and employees, but that's yet another matter) at a huge disadvantage when it comes to corporations.
In the US, contracts can have a much larger scope than in most if not all of the EU members. For instance, when selling something like a car in the EU, a dealer can't put a clause into the contract that rules out warranty. Such a clause would be null and void. Similarly, Edolf Muskler or Jeff Bezos can jump around on one leg and curse, but they can't put clauses into German work contracts that would deny general worker's rights like having a work council or being a union member. A contract for renting an apartment in France can't have a clause about waiving the protection against eviction from November til March.
The point of my statement is just the recognition of the fact that in high-functioning democracies, as flawed as they are, people are not put at such disadvantages because that's what democracy is about. People. Governments that act against the people are removed. Civil society in a multi-party democracy has a much larger influence on ideas and concepts than in a "donation"-driven two-party system where it's often only the choice between bad and worse.
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