19 Facts About Jamie Court

Jamie Court was born on 1967 and is an American author, political activist, lobbyist, and consumer advocate.

Jamie Court serves as president of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit public interest group.

Jamie Court has led campaigns to reform insurers, politicians, banks, oil companies, and utilities.

Jamie Court is the author of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom and the co-author of Making A Killing: HMOs And The Threat To Your Health.

Jamie Court is a regular Los Angeles Times op-ed contributor and a commentator on National Public Radio's Marketplace.

Originally from Suffern, New York, Jamie Court attended Pomona College in Claremont, California and earned a degree in history.

From 1990 to 1994, in the wake of President Clinton's welfare reform plan, Jamie Court worked as a homeless advocate and community organizer for an interfaith lobbying group called JERICHO and as the associate director of Harbor Interfaith Shelter.

For example, in an effort to save public assistance programs in Los Angeles County, Jamie Court bussed hundreds of homeless people from skid row and signed each of them up for the two-minute public comment, required by law, to talk about their plight and how the city's cuts would affect them.

In 1994, Jamie Court joined fellow consumer activist and Proposition 103 author Harvey Rosenfield to build Consumer Watchdog then known as the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.

Jamie Court began his career at Consumer Watchdog as the head of Californians for Quality Care, working to reform the HMO system in the state.

For example, during a legislative meeting in Sacramento, Jamie Court and his team placed a red herring on the table to signify that the proposed HMO reform was a deliberate attempt to divert attention.

Jamie Court created a daily "HMO casualty of the day," where he faxed patient faces and stories to lawmakers to show how HMOs were hurting citizens of the state.

Jamie Court's pioneering work for HMO patients' rights made Consumer Watchdog a national voice in the HMO reform debate.

In 1996, Jamie Court worked with Rosenfield and the California Nurses Association to have a first patients' bill of rights proposition placed on the California ballot.

Jamie Court wanted to expose how much personal information was for sale on the Internet for a relatively cheap price.

In 2003, Jamie Court launched Arnold Watch to expose Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's ties to special interests.

In 2005, Jamie Court helped create Oil Watchdog, a subgroup of Consumer Watchdog tasked to "expose about the profiteering, power, and unscrupulous practices of the oil industry".

In 2011, Jamie Court's tactics attacking legislators, described as "Keystone Kops" tactics, were publicly criticized.

In 2022, IRS filings showed that Jamie Court received more than $400,000 in compensation.