I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it

Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it by jawns on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:27PM (#15873169)

I am vehemently opposed to binding arbitration, but one thing I've often wondered is what effect it would have on the courts if it were made illegal.

Would they experience clogging, in the short term?

Would fees increase to help fund expansion (and deter suits until expansion can accommodate the increased number of filings)?

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Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it by mikeash on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:33PM (#15873229)

Maybe we could just use taxes? Courts should be a public service just like roads and schools and firefighters.

Courts don't cost that much in the grand scheme of things, so even if we had to expand them by a factor of 2 to handle all the arbitration cases, that would be entirely doable.

I would be interesting to know just how much volume arbitrators see, and how many of those might be expected to turn into court cases in the absence of binding arbitration clauses.

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Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it by jessaustin on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:23PM (#15880684)

If we're going to spend more on courts, let's do so on the criminal side in the hopes that fewer than 95% of defendants will plea out.

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