Contracts
Feb. 8, 2012
Is your fine print fine?: When contract disclosures can hurt you
Poorly drafted fine print disclosures are tailor-made for class action treatment. By Daniel K. Slaughter of Stein & Lubin LLP
"Nothing in fine print is ever good news." Andy Rooney was probably thinking of consumers when he said that, but the business world could take those words to heart as well.
Fine print - whether a few words asterisked at the bottom of an advertisement or all over both sides of a multi-page vehicle purchase and sale agreement - has been around for decades. And it is proliferating, especially in the online world wher...
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