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If the business owners didn't understand what they were signing — not misunderstood, but simply couldn't figure it out, as seems most likely here — but they sig
by JasonFruit 7y ago
If the business owners didn't understand what they were signing — not misunderstood, but simply couldn't figure it out, as seems most likely here — but they signed it anyway instead of figuring it out or asking an expert, I can't see how they have anyone to blame here but themselves. I'm not even being intentionally contrarian, as I sometimes might; I really can't see why GrubHub is being blamed.
- munk-a 7y agoThe way of the modern world is that contracts are getting so obscure and hard to parse that I imagine we'll see more cases like this - with courts upholding the objections from the smaller parties because writing a contract that is incomprehensible is a form of negotiating in bad faith.
- JasonFruit 7y agoBut this contract isn't incomprehensible, any more than a mortgage contract is - it's just a specialized topic. You can't invalidate every contract whose meaning isn't obvious to a layman; that's why expert advisors are happy to work for your money.