California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Urchasko v. Compass Airlines, LLC, B264672 (Cal. App. 2016):
Urchasko's failure to read the hard copy of the agreement is no defense. (See Desert Outdoor Advertising v. Superior Court (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th 866, 872 ["[a] cardinal rule of contract law is that a party's failure to read a contract, or to carefully read a contract, before signing it is no defense to the contract's enforcement"]; Madden v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (1976) 17 Cal.3d 699, 710 ["one who assents to a contract is bound by its provisions and cannot complain of unfamiliarity with the language of the instrument"].)2
b. The agreement to arbitrate covers this dispute
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