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were unconscionable
adjective
Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
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That court said that class-action waivers in standard-form contracts, whether applicable to arbitration or litigation, were unconscionable under state law.
His lawyer, Thomas T. Booth Jr., argued that the terms of the lease were "unconscionable," which is legalese for "totally uncool, under the circumstances".
"Their welds broke in my hands, the bronze was garbage and the slave wages for their workers were unconscionable," she said.
The Supreme Court found that the Federal Arbitration Act, which favors arbitrations, trumped a California Supreme Court decision that held that mandatory agreements that waived class actions were unconscionable.
A federal judge dismissed Mr. Jackson's lawsuit because of the arbitration clause, but the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court revived it, saying courts could rule when arbitration agreements were "unconscionable".
Uber lost a bid to force arbitration in a lawsuit brought by its drivers, as a US judge ruled the smartphone-based taxi service's 2013 and 2014 employment contracts dealing with arbitration from were "unconscionable, and therefore unenforceable".
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