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Preserve civil juries by limiting forced arbitration and class waivers, modernizing online courts, and requiring reliable, human-accountable algorithmic evidence.
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The Innovation Party supports preserving civil jury access through targeted Federal Arbitration Act reform, limits on predispute forced arbitration and class waivers for public- accountability claims, accessible online court modernization, careful application of Jarkesy to punitive civil penalties, and reliability/disclosure rules for algorithmic and machine-generated evidence. The position is statutory and procedural; it does not claim arbitration is unconstitutional or that the Seventh Amendment is incorporated against states.
The narrow claim is that public rights and modern mass harms need public adjudication available in practice, not merely in theory. A civil jury cannot check power if every small claim, worker claim, consumer claim, or algorithmic harm is diverted before anyone can see it.
Primary - Privacy, Security, and Trust. Civil juries, public courts, and reliable evidence create accountability when private or government systems harm people.
Secondary - Inclusive Growth and Economic Development. Workers, consumers, small businesses, and patients need practical remedies when individual claims are too small to bring alone.
Secondary - Research, Innovation, and Collaboration. Algorithmic evidence, product liability, and court modernization require technical reliability and public learning.
Republicans are exposed on hypocrisy and inconsistency when they celebrate juries against agencies after Jarkesy while defending fine-print arbitration that strips juries from workers and consumers. Democrats are exposed on inconsistency: the same lawmakers who reintroduced the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act on September 15, 2025 (S. 2799 / H.R. 5350, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-GA, with more than 80 House and 34 Senate co-sponsors) to bar predispute arbitration and class-action waivers for employment, consumer, antitrust, and civil-rights claims often measure civil-court modernization funding by case-clearance and processing-speed metrics rather than by whether it preserves jury access. That second half is an interpretive reading of how court-modernization funding debates typically run, not a claim tied to a specific bill. The Innovation Party's delta is to defend civil juries against both agency overreach and private waiver machinery.
The strongest objection is that arbitration and class waivers can reduce litigation abuse, legal fees, delay, jackpot verdicts, and coercive settlements. Businesses argue that public class actions often enrich lawyers while consumers receive tiny recoveries, and that juries can be unpredictable in technical cases.
That objection is strong enough to shape the remedy. The answer is not to ban all arbitration or romanticize every class action. It is to limit forced predispute waiver where public law and aggregated harms would otherwise disappear, while using early case management, fee scrutiny, evidence gates, and online access to reduce abusive litigation.
Businesses, platforms, employers, health systems, and government agencies may face more public litigation and less private repeat-player arbitration. Courts may need more funding and case management. Plaintiffs' lawyers may face stricter fee and evidence scrutiny. Consumers and workers may still face delay if courts are underfunded. Those costs are acceptable because public accountability cannot survive if the only practical forum is a contract term no one negotiated.
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