Sentences with phrase «unconscionable means»

There is a federal law about collecting debts, 15 USC 1692f, which prohibits a debt collector from using «unfair or unconscionable means to collect or attempt to collect any debt».

A debt collector may not use unfair or unconscionable means to collect or attempt to collect any debt, even if the consumer truly owes the debt.

Is NCO Financial Systems Inc. employing unconscionable means to collect a debt from you?

Not exact matches

In September, the parties, along with the National Farmers Federation (NFF) began talks to agree the voluntary code as a means of addressing growing concern about unconscionable conduct in the supermarkets, which are alleged to be misusing market power in the sector.

This site has been begging for the kids to arrive, even if it meant losses, unconscionable, unfathomable losses.

I mean, that's unconscionable,» Malliotakis said.

Also, the ability to sell direct means that if a monopsony or monopoly * were * to come into existence, writers would still have the ability to reach their readers even if it offered unconscionable terms.

In Kentucky, this means that both sides must fully disclose their assets prior to signing the agreement and the agreement can not be unconscionable at the time it is signed or the time it is enforced.

Clickwraps (as litigated in Feldman v Google) were held to be legally enforcable means of a contract, if the contract is not judged to be unconscionable, and is judged to be enforceable.

That means a court can't review or overturn the arbitrator's decision except in very limited circumstances, for example, when fraud or misuse of power were involved or when the arbitration clause was unconscionable.

As a practical matter, judges almost invariably do so unless the agreement is unconscionable — meaning it's grossly unfair to you, your spouse or your children — or you forgot to include something important.

there could only be a conclusion of lack of good faith within the meaning of [s 31]... where the fact that the negotiations had not passed an «embryonic» stage was, in turn, caused by some breach of or absence of good faith such as deliberate delay, sharp practice, misleading negotiating or other unsatisfactory or unconscionable conduct.

Consider the definition of «cutthroat» — the word that is being generally applied by the Competition Bureau of Canada to the real estate Registrants or Practitioner's operating in the GTA: «marked by unprincipled practices, ruthless cutthroat competition» or to better understand the meaning of «cutthroat» we need to consider the applicable synonyms: unprincipled, immoral, Machiavellian, unconscionable, unethical, unscrupulous.