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Chapter 1: What is America's secret court system?
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Imagine living in a country where you can be stripped of your rights at any time by corporations, your boss, the government, or any old millionaire or billionaire that wants to. They can steal from you, maim your son, sexually assault your daughter, murder your parents and your pet, and you have no right to take them to court.
Instead, you have to go to a secret court, where you are guaranteed to lose. And not only that, you will also be bankrupted and have everything you own taken from you in the process. Name that country. Is it China? Russia? Iran? No, my friends. I am in fact talking about America. Today in 2025. And I am not being hyperbolic.
Today I am going to tell you many stories of how regular people suffered each of those crimes and learned the hard way that everything I just said is true for nearly every single regular American today, including you. Because today we're talking about America's secret court system and it's called forced arbitration. Welcome back to Candice.
America has a secret court system, an entirely parallel justice system designed by and for megacorporations, billionaires and private equity firms. Most Americans have probably only vaguely heard of arbitration. Most of us don't have any experience with it or really know what it means or how it works.
Erinnerst du dich an die Liste von furchtbaren, furchtbaren Verbrechen, die ich vor kurzem gemacht habe? Ich habe diese Liste sehr spezifisch ausgewählt, weil ich heute spezifische Beispiele von diesen exakten Verbrechen, die gegen Amerikaner betroffen sind, mit dem exakten Ergebnis, das ich beschrieben habe, teilen werde.
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Chapter 2: How do corporations manipulate legal agreements?
In 2017 rannte BuzzFeed News eine Geschichte über mehr als 180 Frauen, die sexuell verabschiedet wurden, während sie Massagen im größten Massage-Chain, Massage Envy, verabschiedeten. Sie haben mehr als 1.200 Plätze in den USA. Wenn Sie für Ihren Massage einsteigen, signieren Sie ihre Termine und Bedingungen.
Sie lesen sie nicht tatsächlich, aber wenn Sie sie haben, sehen Sie, dass sie eine Verabschiedungsklausel inkludieren, in der Sie sich für eine Verabschiedungsklausel einstellen, in der Sie eine Verabschiedungsklausel einstellen. Some of the stories that have eventually come out are horrible and I'm not going to read them to you. You can pause and do so if you wish.
And although Massage Envy makes great corporate PR statements like, quote, Massage Envy is committed to promoting a safe environment for members, guests and service providers at each of our 1,200 franchise locations nationwide. We urge anyone that experiences anything other than a safe, quality massage to report it immediately to the franchise location so that it can be investigated.
Notieren Sie, dass sie nicht Polizisten sagen. In vielen der Fälle gibt es Begriffe, dass Therapeuten ermöglicht wurden, zu bleiben, oder zu einer anderen Masagen-NV-Lokation zu schütteln. Glücklicherweise, tragisch, gab es schlussendlich so viele individuelle Fälle von sexuellem Verbrechen, dass einige der Frauen begonnen, ihre Stille zu brechen und die News begonnen, die Geschichte zu öffnen.
Aber, trotz all dieser Brechen im Jahr 2017, continues Masagen-NV dieses gleiche Problem zu befinden. Oder vielleicht sollten wir es als Feature nennen. In 2022, one of these instances actually led to an arrest and a trial in court after a woman was raped and contracted herpes.
Once she came forward, they found out other women had been assaulted by the same therapist and he had continued to work at Massage Envy. So it may seem like the justice system prevailed and they got the guy. No. In one instance, in one specific county, a couple women were lucky enough to find some amount of legal recourse. The other 180 or quite likely more cases, not so much.
And we don't even have any understanding of how many the total number might be because of forced arbitration agreements that everyone's signing when they check in for their massage. Not to mention that 90% of women never even report sexual assault because they think for whatever reason that no one will believe them. Das ist nur ein Beispiel.
Now take into account that more than half of women in the workplace are subject to forced arbitration clauses in their employment contract and you start to get a sense of how much sexual assault is hidden in secret courts every year.
That's not to mention the staggering number of cases that are silenced before they're even brought because plaintiffs rightly realize that they have virtually no chance of winning and will be bankrupted in the process of fighting. And you have virtually no chance of winning because arbitration is not like regular court.
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Chapter 3: What are the dangers of forced arbitration?
You will find lots of propaganda and glowing descriptions on arbitration that claim arbitrators are totally upright and follow the law, but that is patently untrue. Hence why you have on average about a 50-50 chance of winning in court and more like a 6% chance of winning in arbitration. This is how Duke Law put it.
Arbitration tribunals set their own rules and they are typically not bound by the procedural formalities employed by courts, nor are they always bound to follow the substantive laws that govern traditional court systems.
Nonetheless, primary law and decisions handed down by other arbitrators deciding similar issues can be important sources of persuasive authority in resolving issues sent to arbitration. Hier ist ein Beispiel von einer Suche, die authoritär aussieht, die Repräsentation von Arbitrationen schnell und schmerzhaft ist, aber das ist eine Lüge.
Das ist, wie sie es von außen sehen wollen, also scheint es sich keine große Sache zu sein, diese Kontakte zu signen. Tiffany Cianci's Arbitrationen haben einen Total von 11 Tagen von Beratungen gedauert, aber die Beratungen haben zwei Jahre gedauert.
The big guys know that they can drag arbitrations out for months and months to bleed you dry while you pay your attorneys and arbitrators tens of thousands of dollars per week. Tiffany's arbitrator was $27,000 per week, give or take. So I wouldn't imagine that these arbitrators are all that sad when a case drags out, because that's their paycheck. Plus, you have to pay a lawyer to be there.
Aber wartet! Es wird besser. Wenn du in die Arbitration gehst, gehst du und dein Gegner durch den Prozess, einen Arbitrator aus denjenigen, die in deiner Juristik vorhanden sind, zu wählen. Die großen Jungs wissen, wie sie diesen Selection-Prozess spielen, um dich mit dem meistkostigsten Arbitrator, der normalerweise vorhanden ist, zu landen.
Das ist oft derjenige, mit dem sie sich familiarisieren und eine gute Beziehung haben, weil sie oft mit diesem Arbitrator gearbeitet haben, viele Male vorher, Then you have to pay them to rule in favor of the corporation or private equity firm you're up against 94% of the time. Yes, you heard that right.
You are required to pay your judge, who is not a judge, an hourly rate for the privilege of a secret court where there are no laws and you have no rights. This is an example of the resume sheet of one of the arbitrators Tiffany Cianci got stuck with. Scroll down to the bottom of the sheet and you see the part that matters. Compensation. This woman cost Tiffany $500 per hour of arbitration.
Oh yeah, plus an hourly rate for pre and post arbitration services, plus any travel expenses, calls, reviews, filings. Everything costs you more money. That totaled out to about $27,000 per week and this went on for years. Doesn't matter if Tiffany is innocent. Doesn't matter if the other side obviously does not have merit. Doesn't matter if the other side blatantly lies in court.
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Chapter 4: How is the arbitration industry monopolized?
Fast forward to COVID and Tiffany suffered one of the longest government mandated shutdowns of anywhere in the United States. Fortunately, she had a supportive landlord who told her explicitly not to pay rent while she was closed down. And the little Jim, who is not yet owned by Michael Browning, also told franchisees not to pay their dues during the shutdown either.
I mention that because it will come back later. In October of 2021, they are told they have some new people coming on to help advise them. And they have their first group call with Michael Browning Jr. They're not told that he's buying the company. He's just presented as an advisor. And things get pretty weird pretty fast.
und ich bin bereit, mehr Vision zu vermitteln und mit deinem fehlenden Leiter zu arbeiten. Aber das ist die Richtung der Firma. Und wir verändern nicht unsere Richtung. Und deshalb bitte ich dich, uns in dieser Reise zu beitragen. Und auch, wenn diese Reise nicht für dich ist, dann bin ich froh, dass mein Team dir helfen kann, dieses System auszuweiten. Aber von heute an, brauchen wir Einheit.
Und wenn wir finden, dass wir Leute haben, die entweder versuchen, diese Einheit zu erschaffen, Oh man, Michael Browning Jr. was born for this. But anyways.
When it is finally announced that Unleashed Brands, Michael Browning Jr. 's umbrella corporation, has bought the little gym, the changes start rolling in fast. And at first, presented as harmless little changes, just standard operating procedure, there are several. But the two we're going to focus on are a new call center they will be all forced to use and pay for, Und ein neues ACH-Agreement.
Ein ACH-Agreement ist im Grunde genommen das Kontrakt, das die Payments zu Michael Browning Jr. regelt. Es diktiert, wann, wie und warum er von diesen kleinen Geschäftsführern Geld nehmen kann. Es ist wirklich wichtig. Und traditionell bezahlen sie nur 8% der Revenue in Reals. Das ist es. Having learned his lesson from what he did to Leap of Faith Adventures though, Michael Browning Jr.
knows to play it cool this time. What he doesn't know is that he's messing with the wrong mom. Tiffany's husband is a federal attorney. And Tiffany's pretty dang sharp too. And they notice immediately that the new contract is a death sentence to their small business. It changes a lot of things. Like this little change that they hoped no one would really notice.
The simple way to put it is, whereas they used to pay only corporate royalties of up to 8% of their revenue, this new contract would allow Michael Browning Jr. to add any fees he dreamed up and the contract would become subject to change. Plus, as you can see near the bottom, if you try to get out of the contract in the future, they'll kick you out and take your gym.
All sounds a lot like what happened with Garth Price and Leap of Faith's agreement with Urban Air. This was made doubly sketchy by, among other bad ideas, the call center that Michael Browning Jr. wanted them all to sign up for and pay to build and to staff.
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Chapter 5: What are real-life examples of arbitration abuse?
Chapter 6: How does private equity affect healthcare and veterinary services?
The evidence they produced was a photo taken by one of Tiffany's former employees of an online comment, which they alleged showed Tiffany saying these things to her customers. Apparently, Tiffany had left her Facebook open at the gym on a day when no one else was in the building and this employee just happened to see it.
Forget the fact that Tiffany had been paying that girl's phone bills since COVID out of the goodness of her heart and had her whole iCloud backed up to Tiffany's phones, showing that she was off at college that week taking photos with her friends, or the fact that she had the work schedule of the girl showing that she was not scheduled that week, or the photos she had of herself in the gym that day playing with kids, or the text messages from that employee saying she had finals that week and needed the whole week off,
Long story short, it was a doctored photo of a made-up message thread or comment, and the former employee seemed to get a new car and cash infusion into her life right after she testified. Who knows where it came from, but that's the sort of conduct that permeated the case. Fortunately, the arbitrator had no choice but to rule in Tiffany's favor on that defamation.
Unleashed Brands won on the breach of contract. They claimed that Tiffany had breached her contract years ago when she hadn't paid royalties way back during COVID, despite the fact that she had been told at the time not to.
When Michael Browning had bought the company, they had tried to coerce her into signing this new ACH contract by holding these back fees over her head and saying they would offer a payment plan only if she signed it. Instead, she took a huge loan on her house and paid them all down at once. You can see in the bottom right corner, the total amount paid is $30,160.05.
But somehow, the arbitrator still ruled nearly a year after she had paid them, and Unleashed Brands had accepted that payment, that this was a breach of contract and grounds to fire her over. Even though at the time, many other franchisees were still paying those same fees off. Tiffany was the only franchisee ever punished for not paying royalties during COVID when they had all been told not to.
And in order to win legal fees from Tiffany, the rules stated that Unleashed had to win one more count than her. So, they needed another win. And the arbitrator miraculously ruled in favor of Unleashed Brands over Trade Dress, meaning that Tiffany's new gym looked too much like a little gym. But there's some important context here, briefly. Tiffany's husband specializes in patent and trademark.
The law is very specific. You have to file specifically for trade dress protection if you want to be able to bring this claim against someone. And the little Jim has never filed for trade dress protection.
Furthermore, it's extremely difficult to get trade dress protection because it's designed to protect very specific like packaging trademarks or the entire branding of a business that sells a service. It's very technical and very specific and you have to have filed for it, which they never had. Und noch einmal, ich erinnere Sie, dass Arbitrate nicht gefordert sind, die Gesetzgebung zu folgen.
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Chapter 7: What can be done to reform arbitration practices?
Hier sind drei Beispiele von Forged-Dokumenten, die bestätigen, dass er Dokumente an Tiffany Cianci und ihren Mann serviert hat, wenn er sie nicht hatte. In manchen Fällen, wo er sie später auf der Vorderseite beschreibt, als sie an der Arbeit klopfte.
Und hier sind Läufe, die an die falsch angemeldete Adresse geliefert wurden, sodass Tiffany nicht wusste, dass sie in der Gerichtssitzung sein musste, um sich an der wichtigsten Teil der Trial zu verteidigen, wenn sie in der Gerichtssitzung regiert wird.
It's just a coincidence that this is the guy that they hired for this part of the story when their law firm, DLA Piper, has their own process server in-house. Let me say that again. They have their own guy that they normally pay to go serve people documents. But then, for these ones, just those ones, they decide to go hire this dude? Right. So to summarize how insane this is. Wuppsies.
Meaning that Tiffany never received notice that they were about to rule on her case in court. She never received a summons to court. But a whole bunch of forged documents made it to court, making it appear as though she had been served and received notice and just chosen not to show.
It's a miracle that Tiffany ever even figured out what they had done and found out who this guy is and found his rap sheet and was eventually able to appeal the ruling and keep fighting. They did this to one of the other moms, who was a little gym owner, who they are litigating against right now also, because she stood up for Tiffany and the franchisees.
This is the shipping label for the same types of documents at the end of that woman's arbitration, just like in Tiffany's. And that address is not her address. It's a feature, not a bug. They do it at this specific point in the proceedings, because this isn't just any old hearing.
This is where the arbitration becomes law, and Tiffany, or this other woman, Patricia, are supposed to argue what the damages will be. In Tiffany's case, because she didn't show up to defend herself because she didn't know she needed to, she wound up having to pay all of Unleashed Brands legal fees to date. That totaled out to about 2.3 million dollars.
And it's not like Unleashed couldn't afford their legal fees. They were the ones that drew it out so long and made it all so expensive. They were the ones who brought the case in the first place. No. The point was to take everything that Tiffany owned. And they did. Because Tiffany didn't find out what had happened until way later. And she didn't uncover who this serial felon was until later.
And in the meantime, Michael Browning Jr. got his ruling, seized Tiffany's bank accounts and put a lien on her house, thinking that he'd finally won. But Michael Browning Jr. messed with the wrong mom. Because Tiffany's still fighting to this day. Michael Browning Jr. and his lawyers just filed a new case against her days after our first episode came out.
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