Overstreet v. Contigroup Companies, Inc.

DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:

INTRODUCTION

Defendants-Appellants Contigroup Companies, Inc. and Wayne Farms, LLC (collectively, “Appellants”) appeal the district court’s denial of their motion for stay and to compel arbitration. The court denied the motion after concluding that the arbitration clause in the parties’ governing contract was unconscionable as it applied to Plaintiff-Appellee Gertrude Overstreet (“Appellee”). For two separate reasons, we REVERSE and REMAND the case to the district court with instructions.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

For twenty-seven years, Appellee was a chicken farmer in…