Powertel, Inc. v. Bexley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a trial court’s determination that a contract is unconscionable is “reviewable by the de novo standard”
• stating contract was substantively unconscionable in part because plaintiff was required to waive “important statutory remedies” such as declaratory or injunctive relief under FDUTPA
• stating, “One indicator of substantive unconscionability is that the agreement requires the customers to give up other legal remedies.”
• declining to enforce and apply a retroactive arbitration provision to ongoing litigation in part because “the arbitration clause [was] an adhesion contract”
• finding unconscionable a new arbitration clause inserted into existing customers’ monthly bill
• arbitration clause proeedurally unconscionable because parties had no meaningful choice in accepting or rejecting the contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

108 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Discover Bank v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2005-06-27· cited 370×
• Kinkel v. Cingular Wireless, LLC
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2006-10-05· cited 190×
• Kristian v. Comcast Corp.
  First Circuit· 2006-04-20· cited 140×
• Pendergast v. Sprint Nextel Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-01-04· cited 101×
• Gainesville Health Care Center, Inc. v. Weston
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-09-18· cited 95×
• AutoNation USA Corp. v. Leroy
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-04-17· cited 95×
• Shotts v. OP Winter Haven, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-11-23· cited 74×
• Whitney v. Alltel Communications, Inc.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2005-07-05· cited 69×
• In Re Conseco Finance Servicing Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-06-07· cited 69×
• Scott v. Cingular Wireless
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-07-12· cited 69×
• Global Travel Marketing, Inc. v. Shea
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-07-07· cited 67×
• Fonte v. AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-06-15· cited 61×
• Blankfeld v. Richmond Health Care, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-05-25· cited 55×
• Roberto Basulto v. Hialeah Automotive, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-03-20· cited 55×
• Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc. v. Petsch
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-02-06· cited 54×
• Romano Ex Rel. Romano v. Manor Care, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-10-01· cited 48×
• In Re Checking Account Overdraft Litigation
  S.D. Florida· 2010-03-11· cited 48×
• Gras v. Associates First Capital Corp.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-12-20· cited 47×
• Skirchak v. Dynamics Research Corp.
  First Circuit· 2007-11-19· cited 45×
• Juan Mendez, Jr., etc. v. Hampton Court Nursing Center, LLC.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-09-22· cited 43×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Southland Corp. v. Keating
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 1,927×
• Doctor's Associates, Inc. v. Casarotto
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-03· cited 1,668×
• Perry v. Thomas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-15· cited 1,187×
• Ora Lee Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Company, William Thorne v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1965-08-11· cited 460×
• Rich Hill and Enza Hill, on Behalf of a Class of Persons Similarly Situated v. Gateway 2000, Inc., and David Prais
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-02-03· cited 173×
• Paladino v. Avnet Computer Technologies, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-02-04· cited 81×
• Steinhardt v. Rudolph
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-08-17· cited 63×
• Randolph v. Green Tree Financial Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-06-22· cited 58×
• Kohl v. Bay Colony Club Condominium, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-04-29· cited 44×
• Belcher v. Kier
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-02-02· cited 30×
• Complete Interiors, Inc. v. Behan
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-01-04· cited 28×
• Champ v. Siegel Trading Company, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-05-18· cited 27×
• Inter-Active Services v. HEATHROW MASTER
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-12-04· cited 26×
• Steuart Petroleum v. Lloyd's London
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-18· cited 24×
• Garrett v. Janiewski
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-09-25· cited 21×
• Pasteur Health Plan, Inc. v. Salazar
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-05-03· cited 14×
• Old Dominion Ins. v. DEPENDABLE REINS.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-07-30· cited 14×
• SHEARSON/LEHMAN BROS. INC. v. Ordonez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-11-12· cited 7×
• Amour & More North American Licensing, Inc. v. Zammatta
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-09-13· cited 4×
• State, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services v. Electronic Data Systems Corporation
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-12-14· cited 2×