Mother Jones on Cheney-Style Justice

by Deepak Gupta

We've posted recently about the horrifying story of Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year old Haliburton/KBR employee who was gang-raped by her co-workers in Iraq and is now being denied her constitutional right to seek justice in court because of a mandatory binding arbitration clause in her employment contract.  Ms. Jones recently told her story to the House Judiciary Committee.  At Mother Jones, reporter Stephanie Mencimer has dug a little deeper into the origins of Haliburton's mandatory arbitration policy.  Can everything bad be traced back to Dick Cheney?  Not quite, but sometimes it seems that way.