Arnold v. United Companies Lending Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding unconscionable and unenforceable a contract provision that waived the borrower’s right to access the courts while preserving the lender’s right to obtain relief in a judicial forum
• finding that an agreement was unconscionable due, in part, to “[t]he relative positions of the parties, a . national corporate lender on one side and elderly, unsophisticated consumers on. the other” and where the plaintiffs had fifth and eighth-grade educations
• invalidating an arbitration agreement waiving the borrower's access to court, but preserving the lender’s right thereto
• arbitration provision in consumer loan transaction waiving consumer's right to judicial redress but preserving the lender's right, held unconscionable, void, and unenforceable as matter of law
• arbitration provision in consumer loan transaction waiving consumer’s right to judicial redress but preserving the lender’s right, held unconscionable, void, and unenforceable as matter of law
• arbitration provision in consumer loan transaction waiving consumer’s right to judicial redress but preserving the lender’s right, held unconscionable, void, and unenforceable as matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).