Lending Agreements’ Out-of-State Forum Selection Clauses and Class Action Waivers Violate Georgia Public Policy Blog 11thCircuitBusinessBlog
Lending Agreements’ Out-of-State Forum Selection Clauses and Class Action Waivers Violate Georgia Public Policy Blog 11thCircuitBusinessBlogNext, the court addressed the course action waiver
Lenders had been banned from enforcing out-of-state forum selection clauses and class action waivers in loan agreements because such conditions violate Georgia’s general public policy, the Eleventh Circuit held in Davis v. Oasis Legal Finance working Co., 2019 WL 4051592 (11th Cir. Aug. 28, 2019). A course of borrowers whom entered into identical loan agreements sued their loan providers, alleging that the agreements violated Georgia’s Payday Lending Act, O.C.G.A. В§ 16-17-1 et seq., Industrial Loan Act, O.C.G.A. В§ 7-3-1 et seq., and laws that are usury O.C.G.A. В§ 7-4-18. Lenders relocated to dismiss the problem and strike the borrowers’ class allegations, arguing that the mortgage agreements’ forum selection clauses needed the borrowers to sue them in Illinois and therefore the course action waivers banned a course action. […]