In a prior posting I made reference to the "Equal Access to Justice Act" when I should have been referencing the Civil Justice Reform Act. The latter merely makes it possible for those who wish court access to afford doing so by paying a fee that at least appears within everybody's economic reach. At this time it cost a plaintiff $350.00 to file a federal civil cause of action. It doesn't stop there, however, because district court local rules require additional fees for everything from the hard copying of filed documents to placing the case on appeal.

If the bourgeois folks had their way, they would move to discourages those lesser-class status members from filing any civil complaint by pricing the filing fee into a out of reach sphere. I am thinking a complaint filing, under their scheme, would reach upwards to two or three thousand dollars. With this price tag, only the rich and their law firms would be able to file complaints against us lower-upper middle class.

More to come.