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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The idea of standing as a big corporation on equal terms with a regular person in front of a civil jury? It is offensive…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2013
The idea of standing as a big corporation on equal terms with a regular person in front of a civil jury? It is offensive to them.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Critiquing corporations' aversion to civil jury trials.

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