When Mary Cohn tried to sue the company that built her home for producing a house filled with defects, she didn't exactly find a welcome mat at the courthouse.
"Our home was infiltrated with mold and water. It made my children ill living in this home," Cohn says.
Unknown to Cohn, there was a waiver included in her closing papers which forfeited her right to file a lawsuit, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta.
"It's a rigged poker game," she says.
The dispute had to be settled through binding arbitration.
"This is the finest consumer defect case that I've seen in my career and you're going to lose it," Jim Moriarty, a consumer fraud attorney, told Cohn.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/19/eveningnews/consumer/main574300.shtml
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