Sentences with phrase «unconscionable practices»

Also, you should stop the unconscionable practice of requiring employees and portfolio companies to sign agreements that prevent them from saying anything (or anything bad) about your companies.

Meat animals are fed anywhere from five to fifteen pounds of vegetable protein for each pound of meat produced — an unconscionable practice in a world where many go hungry.

One section of the Statute in New Jersey requires that real estate commission agreements be reduced to writing in order «to protect the public from fraud, incompetence, misinterpretation, sharp or unconscionable practice [s]» by real estate brokers.

Not exact matches

9.59 the Act should prohibit, as a civil matter only, unconscionable conduct or practices in trade and commerce;

The ACCC advised that the allegations raised with the ACCC, which were the subject of its investigation, included allegations of some conduct that the ACCC considered did not conform to acceptable business practice and may be unconscionable or a misuse of market power.

In February 1992, while Levy was a county legislator, a Suffolk hearing officer found Ellner had engaged in «unconscionable trade practices» in connection with a mortgage fraud in Medford.

In 1992, he had been cited by county consumer officials for «unconscionable trade practices» in connection with a mortgage fraud in Medford.

(D) Engage, directly or indirectly, in an unconscionable, unfair, or deceptive act or practice, as those terms are used and defined in Chapter 1345.

Any loan broker or loan officers of any loan broker that violate any provision of this Title or any rule issued by the administrator, or that through any unfair, unconscionable or deceptive practice cause actual damage to a consumer, are subject to the following: [2005, c. 683, Pt.

[FN61] A violation of FDUTPA is defined as any violation of FDUTPA, or may be predicated upon violations of any rules promulgated pursuant to the FTC act, any standards of unfairness or deception set forth by the FTC or the federal courts, or any law, statute, or other provision which proscribes unfair methods of competition, or unfair, deceptive, or unconscionable acts or practices.

• The Florida Credit Service Organizations Act The Florida Credit Service Organizations Act (FCSOA)[FN27] was enacted in 1987 to regulate certain trade practices in the area of credit repair and to guard against unfair and unconscionable contracts between credit service organizations and consumers.

Traditionally, consumer protection regulation has consisted of barring trade practices which are misleading, deceptive, unfair, or unconscionable, or in any way restrict trade.

Any loan broker or loan officers of any loan broker that violate any provision of this Title or any rule issued by the administrator, or that through any unfair, unconscionable or deceptive practice cause actual damage to a consumer, are subject to the following:

Haven Exchange calls this practice unconscionable.

This «deadly» omission of information about Parvo for pet owners by the HSUS, that purportedly has a following of millions, suggests that there has been a conscious and unconscionable decision to keep the American Public and Elected Officials at the Federal, State and Local Levels of Government in the Dark so that the spread of Parvo and its deadly consequences will be inhumanely perpetuated, and be exploited and misrepresented to the American Public as being caused by irresponsible breeding practices in order to further enhance the fundraising activities of the HSUS.

The plaintiffs seek declarations that the defendants have violated RICO by committing mail and wire fraud and that their conduct constitutes unfair, deceptive or unconscionable sales practices; damages including treble damages, costs of litigation and attorneys» fees.

When evaluating how much we spend on our military defense or keeping nasty, awful, unconscionable murderers and child molesters alive in jail... then it seems ludicrous we or any other wealthy country can't assist the poorer countries to develop better sanitation systems and practices.

The Reagan - era stream buffer zone rule must be reinstated and enforced to protect American lives from these unconscionable industry practices.»

The Florida law which governs this reduces to saying «Unfair methods of competition, unconscionable acts or practices, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful», and then refers the reader (judge interpreting the law) to their intent to give due consideration to the Federal Trade Commission Act (because they don't say what counts as a deceptive or unfair practice).

The practices of some «form - filler» companies who assisted residential school survivors with filing their claims under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) were described as «unconscionable» in a decision from the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench issued last week.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association today filed their written brief to the Ontario Court of Appeal, as part of its ongoing efforts to stop the unconscionable federal practice of indefinite solitary confinement, particularly of the indigenous and mentally ill.

The embryonic stage of negotiations had to be attributable to «sharp practice» or «unconscionable conduct» or the like, [139] before the withdrawal from negotiations at that early stage could justify a conclusion of lack of good faith.

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.