Tyler v. Michaels Stores, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

[F]or all its faults, the civil justice system remains a remarkable achievement. It is there that an individual who is injured, neither wealthy nor well connected, can hail a powerful adversary into court on equal footing and ask the court to hold it accountable for its wrongful conduct.

Only in an American courtroom — not in legislative chambers or executive suites — can an individual seek full redress, standing at the bar on an equal basis with a powerful and influential adversary. The political and economic advantages that one might…