Article: Open the Shut Case Why is KBR so afraid of letting Jamie Leigh Jones have her day in court?

From Slate and via a facebook friend. Click here to read entire article:

Jamie Leigh Jones was 20 years old in 2005 when KBR—then a subsidiary of Halliburton—sent her to Baghdad’s Green Zone as a clerical worker. Her contract with Halliburton/KBR provided that “any and all claims that you might have against Employer related to your employment, including your termination, and any and all personal injury claim[s] arising in the workplace … must be submitted to binding arbitration instead of to the court system.” Mandatory arbitration clauses of this sort are hardly unusual. What’s unusual is that KBR is willing to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Jones from having a day in court.