Similarly, contract slavery uses false or deceptive contracts to justify or explain forced slavery.
If financial corporations think they can make lots of money by writing deceptive contracts and abusive practices towards their customers, we know they will devote lots of resources to writing deceptive contracts and engaging in abusive practices.
However, if they know that they will never be able to get away with charging excessive fees -- for example if they know that the CFPB would rule against them and make them refund excessive charges -- then they don't have incentive to develop deceptive contracts in the first place.
The surge in U.S. consumer debt over the past twenty-five years has been accompanied by stagnant wages and deceptive loan contracts.
The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, deceptive business practices and fraud.
Now Transcend VR, as first reported in The Wall Street Journal, is suing the venture capitalist on allegations of fraud, breach of contract and deceptive diversion of funds.
The contracting crisis we're seeing in Afghanistan now is nearly the same one I saw in Afghanistan in 2010, and nearly the same one I saw in Iraq before that — although President Obama has since signed a groundbreaking executive order to push back against trafficking and deceptive recruiting on federal contracts.
Meanwhile, the two men do not speak, and their lawyers claw at each other in court, trading charges over breach of contract, trademark infringement, deceptive business practices and breach of financial duty.
There were charges over breach of contract, trademark infringement, deceptive business practices and breach of financial duty, and court skirmishes over Mr. Tourondel's legal right to put caramel syrup and Twinkies into the milkshakes of his new restaurants as he began to fly solo.
Carolyn Kellman, a Florida-based lawyer touted as a "fashionista" by the Miami Herald in 2007, has filed a class action suit against Forever 21, citing breach of contract, unfair and deceptive practices and unjust enrichment.
