Thrasher v. Unknown Prison Official

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \Ohio courts recognize a 'presumption favoring arbitration' that arises 'when the claim in dispute falls within the scope of the arbitration provision' \
• finding that unconscionability is a defense to enforcement of an arbitration agreement
• holding an arbitration clause valid where there was no evidence that the signatories “were hurried through [the] signature process” and the clause “appeared in standard, rather than fine, print and was not hidden”
• finding no procedural uneonscionability, even though the contract was pre-printed and the arbitration provision was offered on take-it-or-leave-it basis, where provision “appeared in standard, rather than fine, print and was not hidden”
• “[E]ven a contract of adhesion is not in all instances unconscionable per se,” as standardized contracts “can provide advantages to consumers.”
• contract interpretation, a question of law, is reviewed de novo, “[u]nlike determinations of fact which are given great deference”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).