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A Random Thought
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Mel Hathorn The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a provocative story about what happens when private citizens try to sue corporations. When a poorly maintained truck loaded with tons of concrete loses its brakes, careens down a mountain, and collides with a school bus, killing 25 children, and the teacher, the parents decide to sue. They quickly learn they cannot because of a Supreme Court case from the late 1880s that protects corporate leaders from personal liability. While corporations can be sued, corporate leaders cannot even though they make decisions that create major damage or loss of life. The parents nevertheless decide to file their first suit against the CEO of Mighty Meadows. The business community unites to block these upstart parents by using a variety of legal and illegal means. The case lands in the Supreme Court where the fate of millions could depend on the single swing vote of a Justice.