“Hot Coffee” and rape survival

I just saw a documentary called Hot Coffee on HBO that addresses the “McDonald’s hot coffee case” and others that have been called “frivolous lawsuits” and exposes how some of those cases were really used to benefit corporations over individuals.

Readers of this blog might be especially interested in a section that highlights a rape survivor trying to get her day in court after being raped while working for Halliburton. She was prevented from doing so because she unknowingly signed an employment contract with a mandatory arbitration clause (Which means you waive your right to go to the courts and go to a private arbitrator which almost always favors the corporation over individual clients). Thus the survivor was unable to face her rapists in court until June of this year, with the help of Al Franken.

I thought it was really eye-opening and the word needed to be spread. (Plus it did well at Sundance).

http://hotcoffeethemovie.com/