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P1313 Arbitration provisions in a new home warranty application that was presented to buyers at or shortly before the close of escrow and contained language broadly referring to construction defects, but worded in a way that appeared to apply only to the warranty itself, was unenforceable by the builder in construction defect litigation filed by the home buyers; as applied to the builder the arbitration agreement was procedurally unconscionable because the document was not provided to the buyers until closing and appeared to refer only to the warranty, and was substantively unconscionable because it would not have required the builder to arbitrate any claims it was likely to have.CitationBAKER v OSBORNE DEVELOPMENT (Home Warranty) 159 CA4 884 [See: CCP 1280 etseq; Armendariz v Foundation 24 C4 83, T/AT 9/00]
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