document, that she understood it, and that she agreed to it. And in 2001, she again signed a contract agreeing to the terms of the Program. She now alleges that she never received a copy of the Program. Under Puerto Rico law, “the onus was on her” to obtain and read a copy before signing it. Rodriguez-Bird v. Santander Sec. Corp., No. 09-2238, 2010 WL 2541708, at *2 (D.P.R. June 17, 2010). Further, it is a general and well established principle of contract law that “one who is ignorant of the language in which a document is written, or who is illiterate,” may be bound to a contract by negligently failing to learn its contents. 1 Richard A. Lord, Williston on Contracts § 4:19 (4th ed.2010) (footnote omitted); see also N.Y. Life Ins. Co. v. Kwetkauskas, 63 F.2d 890, 891 (3d Cir.1933) (<HOLDING>); Stern v. Moneyweight Scale Co., 42 App.D.C.
recognizing this principle in the childpornography context recognizing this principle as a settled rule recognizing principle recognizing principle but finding evidence at first trial sufficient recognizing this principle in the failure to hire context