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In reply to the discussion: Forget the DU created issues. How does Hillary not have an opinion on TPP? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)court or arbitration court that is international.
Corporations, like people, should only be able to sue for money damages in courts with judges appointed or elected by the people of the country being sued or its democratically elected government.
In my response in this thread to Papango, I discussed the situation in El Salvador which has been sued in an ISDS by a company that wants to mine gold in El Salvador which puts dangerous chemicals into the water. The very idea that a corporation can sue a people, a nation, for the "right to pollute" the water of that nation is abhorrent. The idea that a very large or wealthy corporation can sue a poor nation for the "right to pollute" is downright devilish.
There should be no right of a corporation to sue a nation, a people, in any court outside the nation being sued.