Case Name: Popowsky v. Pa. Pub. Util. Comm'n

Court: Commonwealth Ct. of Pa.    Docket: 1179 CO 2012

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Case Issue: Does state law prohibit utility company from procuring 100 percent of its default service generation through volatile hourly spot market purchases?

Case Name: Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. King

Court: N.Y. Ct. App.    Docket: 503411

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Case Result: Debt collection was barred by statute of limitations as debt buyer was not entitled to a longer than the three year statute of limitations that applied to original creditor in Delaware.

Case Name: Rent-A-Center, West, Inc. v. Jackson

Court: U.S. Supreme Court   Docket: 09-497

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Case Result: Employment arbitration provision delegated to the arbitrator the decision about whether the provision was unenforceable, where challenge was to enforceability of the overall contract, not specifically to the enforceability of the arbitration provision itself.

Case Name: Schnuerle v. Insight Communications Co.

Court: Ky. Sup. Ct.   Docket: 2008-SC-000789-D

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Case Result: Federal law preempts state contract law unconscionability defenses including clauses which ban class actions.

Case Name: S. Alliance for Clean Energy v. Fla. Pub. Serv. Comm'n

Court: Fla Supreme Court   Docket: SC-2465

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Case Issue: Is state statute permitting PSC to set rates that includes recovery of the cost of nuclear plants that may never be built unconstitutional because statute fails to provide considerations to be evaluated when deciding what costs to include?

Case Name: Stolt-Nielsen v. Animalfeeds Int'l Corp.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court   Docket: 08-1198

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Case Result: If contract does not clearly permit a class action in arbitration, a party may not be forced to resolve a dispute in arbitration as a class action.

Case Name: Unifund CCR Partners v. Shah

Court: Ill. App. Ct. of Ill., 1st Dist.   Docket: 11-3658

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Case Issue: Must debt buyer prove ownership of a debt through actual written contracts of sale rather than using an affidavit?

Case Name: Vassalle v. Midland Funding

Court: U.S. Ct. App. 6th Cir.    Docket: 11-4021

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Case Result: Nationwide class action settlement could not be approved as class representatives and settlement did not adequately protect the absent class members.

Case Name: White v. Conestoga Title Ins. Co.

Court: Pa. Supreme Court  Docket: 30 EAP 2010

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Case Result: Class action challenging title company's failure to provide its discounted title insurance rate in mortgage refinancing transactions was not allowed under common law as statute requires exhausting administrative remedies prior to filing suit, but claims under unfair and deceptive practices statute may proceed.