Zenia Chavarria v. Ralphs Grocery Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the FAA does not preempt California law’s invalidation of an arbitration policy that imposed one- sided costs on the weaker party
• holding that a contract is 18 procedurally unconscionable if it is standardized, drafted by the party with superior bargaining 19 power, and provides no opportunity for negotiation
• holding that agreement was procedurally 11 unconscionable in part because its terms “were not provided to [the plaintiff] until three weeks 12 after she had agreed to be bound by it”
• finding that the effective vindication doctrine was implicated when “administrative and filing costs, even disregarding the cost to prove the merits, effectively foreclose pursuit of the claim”
• explaining that \[p]rocedural unconscionability concerns the manner in which the contract was negotiated and the respective circumstances of the parties at that time\
• finding that the effective vindication doctrine was implicated when “administrative and filing costs, even disregarding the cost to prove the merits, effectively foreclose pursuit of the claim”

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