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Our Unconscionable Contract Casebooks

Jacob Hale Russell, Unconscionability’s Greatly Exaggerated Death, 53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available on SSRN. David Hoffman Jacob Russell has a bone to pick with the contract professoriate, who have consigned unconscionability to a backwater in our courses, … Continue reading

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Yahoo!'s damages limitation provision in its terms of service might be unconscionable

There's a class action going on over data breaches at Yahoo! between 2013 and 2016, and a recent decision in the case in the Northern District of California, In re: Yahoo! Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, Case No. 16-MD-02752-LHK… … Continue reading

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Waiver of consequential damages is not unconscionable

A recent case out of the Northern District of Illinois, Talcott Communications Corp. v. Quad/Graphics Printing Corp., Case No. 17 C 2278, deals with the enforceability of contract provisions prohibiting consequential damages. Talcott sued Quad/Graphics for breach of contract and… … Continue reading

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UpRight Law, Kevin Chern Sanctioned for Unconscionable Harm to Clients

UPRIGHT LAW and KEVIN CHERN, partner, sanctioned for ‘unconscionable harm to clients’ Report from the Department of Justice, 2/13/18 – Law Solutions Chicago, doing business as “UpRight Law”,  UpRight’s managing partner Kevin Chern, and affiliated partner attorneys Darren Delafield and … Continue reading

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