Jamie Court
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Jamie Court (born 1967) is an American author, political activist, lobbyist, and consumer advocate.
He is the president of Consumer Watchdog, a nationally respected, leftist, nonprofit public interest group.Court pioneered the HMO patients' rights movement in the United States.
He has also worked with insurers, politicians, banks, oil companies, and utilities.
"A tireless consumer advocate," the Los Angeles Times called Court "a tireless consumer advocate." "Court is the author of Corporate Ownership: How Corporate Wealth Benefits Your Personal Safety and The Risk To Your Health."
His most recent book, The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell: How to Win Grass Campaigns and Get the Change You Voted For, was published on September 15, 2010.Court is also a regular contributor to National Public Radio's Marketplace.
Early career and education
Court, a native of Suffern, New York, received a degree in history from Pomona College in Claremont, California. Court went door to door to raise funds for the implementation of Insurance reform ballot initiative California Proposition 103, which passed on November 8, 1988, was a student at the University of 1989.
Court served as both a homeless advocate and community organizer for an interfaith advocacy group named JERICHO and as the associate director of Harbor Interfaith Shelter from 1990 to 1994.
Court pioneered the unusual activism strategies he became famous for later in life during this period. For example, Court bussed hundreds of homeless people from skid row and then voted for two-minute public comment, which is mandated by law to discuss their plight and how the city's cuts will impact them.
Awards
- Civil Justice Foundation Champion of Justice
- Consumer Attorneys of California Consumer Advocate of the Year
- California Nurses Association Social and Political Activist of the Year
- Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles Consumer Educator of the Year
- Los Angeles Business Journal's Who's Who Of Health Care