Once again a child was injured at a trampoline park. Once again, they will have to arbitrate their claim. I’m not sure why arbitration is a bad thing in this instance, but the drafting here was sloppy as to duration.
#law #contracts #litigation #arbitration #torts #trampolines
Ack! A new Top Tens dropped while I was sleeping, and [double Ack!] @chrisodinet.bsky.social & @andreatosato.bsky.social's “Crypto & the Property Question” is challenging their BCO for the lead!
#law #contracts #crypto #scholarship #academia
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/-tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-march-11-2025.html
I’m not obsessed with #Severance, you are! That’s why you should read today’s post about the Overtime Contingency and standard terms of employment
A class-action complaint against Albertson’s over non-drowsy cough medicine that made plaintiffs sleepy provides a good teaching case on timely notice of a warranty claim.
The chapter-by-chapter review of Larry DiMatteo’s Principles of Contract Law and Theory continues today. This time, its less principles and more theory. Fun stuff, from economics to ethics and more.
#law #contracts #books #theory &Law&Economics
In today’s Friday Frivolity column, we share the story of a woman (whose name just happens to be Karen) who filed a complaint because her employer did not give her a going-away card when she was downsized.
#law #contracts #employment #litigation
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/friday-frivolity-an-employees-right-to-a-farewell-card.html
A man, frustrated that Substack would not respond to him, appealed to the company’s chatbot, which provided mild assurances that someone would get back to him. Substack never did, so he sued for promissory estoppel.
Whenever I come across cases in which courts puzzle over whether a farmer is a merchant, I think of Thomas Hardy’s decpiction of Bathsheba Everdene in the Casterbridge cornmarket.
#Gannett unionized employees and management have reached tentative #contract deals at 6 newspapers in #NewJersey and #NewYork after threatened walkouts
#US #DOD awards #Scale AI a prototype contract for "Thunderforge" to use #AI agents for planning and operations
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/scale-ai-announces-multimillion-dollar-defense-military-deal.html
Today, we provide a tl;dr on “Bankrupt Crypto Organizations," by @profthebruce.bsky.social, @andreatosato.bsky.social, & @chrisodinet.bsky.social. Bankruptcy forces centralization, disclosure, & hierarchy, all contrary to the crypto ethos. So that is a distressed crytpo org’n to do?
Two friends attended a Coldplay concert together. One fronted the money for the tickets and later requested reimbursement. They ended up asking a Canadian small claims court to adjudicate whether the engagement had been a date, with mixed results.
The world of contracts law and scholarship has lost a dear colleague, Juliet Moringiello. @chrisodinet.bsky.social, one of many beneficiaries of her mentorship, has written a heartfelt post in her memory.
The new top tens are out, and the big development is that @chrisodinet.bsky.social and @andreatosato.bsky.social now have slipped into the #2 slot with Crypto & Property behind their #1 smash hit BCO co-authored w/ @profthebruce.bsky.social
#law #contracts #scholarship #academia #crypto #property # bankruptcy
Sid DeLong discusses five tips for reading a contracts law case, which are also a master class in how to teach a contracts law case.
Plaintiffs, injured while in an Uber, claim that they did not agree to arbitrate. Their 12-year-old daughter was using her mother’s Uber Eats app, and she agreed to terms. The arbiter can work that out, says the court. Bondage has replaced freedom of K.
During the trump first term he “negotiated” the replacement of NAFTA with a new agreement. Less than two months into his second term he unilaterally tears it up and starts a trade war.
Let’s juxtapose that with trumps extortionate attempts to make a “deal” with Ukraine. First for rare earth minerals and then for a wider peace deal with Russia.
Given what we know about both trump and putin and their “honoring” agreements would you be willing to sign?
my sweetie’s book has just been accepted by a publisher. you go girl!
the problem is, they have two levels for this.
the first one wants $4,000 dollars up front!
the second option is around $200, again. up front.
this puts me in mind of a famous essay about the record industry’s contracts, titled, “Some of your friends are already this fucked.”
Luci’s *not* stupid, but I’m still a little wary.
any advice on how I should bring up the subject?
A quick post on Dellinger v. Bessent, in which a District Court upheld the power of Congress to protect some federal employees by statute. This will shoot up to SCOTUS and might be an opportunity for it to revisit Humphrey’s Executor. The Court is poised to embrace an extreme version of the Unitary Executive theory, which would allow the President to terminate any federal employee, even those whom Congress tried to insulate from caprice.
#law #contracts #FederalWorkers #Litigation #ConstitutionalLaw #SCOTUS
In Part XII of my review of Larry DiMatteos Principles of Contract Law and Theory, we start to get into some substantive disagreements, a veritable fault line, dividing us on reliance and the relationship of legal and moral norms.
