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Tom Brandi: We live in a system in America where all the people who make
the laws, the legislatures, are subject to tremendous
lobbying interests in the power of special interest, in the
power of money. In a jury, they can't reach that jury
directly. They can't go to the jurors and say "Listen, we
think you should vote this way on this bill; or this way on
this case. The beauty of the jury system is that ordinary
people get to decide what happens. The jurors are judges of
the facts of the case, the jurors determine who's telling
the truth or not. Powerful interests, corporations, banks,
they don't like to go to trial, because they don't like
ordinary people having the opportunity to hold them
accountable for what they did.
Casey Kaufman: I believe that the last pure forum, where people can find
justice is in a court room. Because, no matter who it is,
they have to come to the table right next to you, and they
have to convince regular people that they did noting wrong.
Mylene Reuvekamp: It takes litigation, it takes a jury saying "This is
wrong and this is how much money you should pay, and we
want this stopped." That's what a jury can tell a company
in a way that a government or state or the market itself
can't tell people.
Tom Brandi: The only place that you can level the playing field is in a
court room, and the jurors provide the ultimate consumer
protection.