{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-440.2808","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.2808","heading":"Unconscionable contract, clause, or conduct.","body":"Sec. 2A108.\n\nIf a court, as a matter of law, finds a lease contract or any clause of a lease contract to have been unconscionable at the time it was made, the court may refuse to enforce the lease contract, or it may enforce the remainder of the lease contract without the unconscionable clause, or it may so limit the application of any unconscionable clause as to avoid any unconscionable result.\n\nWith respect to a consumer lease, if a court, as a matter of law, finds that a lease contract or any clause of a lease contract has been induced by unconscionable conduct or that unconscionable conduct has occurred in the collection of a claim arising from a lease contract, the court may grant appropriate relief.\n\nBefore making a finding of unconscionability under subsection (1) or (2), the court, on its own motion or that of a party, shall afford the parties a reasonable opportunity to present evidence as to the setting, purpose, and effect of the lease contract or clause thereof, or of the conduct.\n\nIn an action in which the lessee claims unconscionability with respect to a consumer lease, all of the following apply:\n\nIf the court finds unconscionability under subsection (1) or (2), the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees to the lessee.\n\nIf the court does not find unconscionability and the lessee claiming unconscionability has brought or maintained an action he or she knew to be groundless, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees to the party against whom the claim is made.\n\nIn determining attorney's fees, the amount of the recovery on behalf of the claimant under subsections (1) and (2) is not controlling.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 440","Act Act-174-of-1962"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-440-2808","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"a875cd4fa5c294065a8d6f6f73696f95b001c895b57b3c4d71c5a04400d775ea","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-440.2807","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-440.2809"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}