In a message dated 2/6/00 1:52:14 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
jonkc@worldnet.att.net writes:
> The best jury is no jury and no judge either, better to have an arbitrator.
>  If the arbitrator receives no salary but is paid by the case, and if he's
>  picked by both sides then it's in his financial interest to be as just as
>  possible. If he favored one side over another, or made brutal or stupid
>  decisions he would not be picked again and would need to look for a
>  new line of work. Unlike present day judges and juries, justice would
>  have a net positive survival value for the arbitrator. Justice is no 
different
>  than anything else, if you want to maximize something make it a
>  commodity and sell it on the open market.
    cool. but how do you get the two sides to agree on an arbitrator? have 
something like a pool of arbitrators to choose from, with the two sides 
picking their order of preference; the arbitrator with the highest common 
rating being the one picked?
sayke, v2.3.05
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:03:31 MDT