[msvalkon]

Did you by chance read the article? This has little to do with opening up trade and much to do with providing ridiculous amount of power to any major corporation.

EDIT:

Suppose I'm a producer of bottled water from Germany. I bottle a lot of water in California. The Californians vote to move to heavy water rationing and regulation due to the threat of continuous draught. This hurts my business, so should I be allowed, as a corporation, to sue the state of California, have any possible trials and hearings within a closed courtroom and possibly overrule the vote?

[RobertoG]

Agree, the motivation of all this is, at least, worrisome.

You should be allowed, as a corporation, to sue the state of California... in California. But this is not what we are talking about here.

We are talking about the creation of new special courtrooms above the laws of California, staffed by people that worked for corporations and when they left the job are going to work for corporations again.

If this is not worrisome, you tell me what it is.