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KProfsBlogOnce 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/arbitration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arbitration</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/torts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#torts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/trampolines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trampolines</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/another-child-bound-by-parent-to-arbitrate-claims-against-amusement-park.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/another-child-bound-by-parent-to-arbitrate-claims-against-amusement-park.html</a>

KProfsBlogAck! 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! <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crypto</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scholarship</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/-tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-march-11-2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/-tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-march-11-2025.html</a>

KProfsBlogI’m not obsessed with <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Severance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Severance</a>, you are! That’s why you should read today’s post about the Overtime Contingency and standard terms of employment<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Severance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Severance</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TermsofEmployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TermsofEmployment</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Television</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/the-overtime-contingency-and-lumons-terms-of-employment.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/the-overtime-contingency-and-lumons-terms-of-employment.html</a>

KProfsBlogA 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/warranty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warranty</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ClassActions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassActions</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/woke-court-mostly-denies-albertsons-motion-to-dismiss-drowsy-womans-complaint-and-class-allegations.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/woke-court-mostly-denies-albertsons-motion-to-dismiss-drowsy-womans-complaint-and-class-allegations.html</a>

KProfsBlogThe 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theory</a> &Law&Economics<a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/reviewing-larry-dimatteo-principles-of-contract-law-and-theory-part-xiii.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/reviewing-larry-dimatteo-principles-of-contract-law-and-theory-part-xiii.html</a>

KProfsBlogIn 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#employment</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/friday-frivolity-an-employees-right-to-a-farewell-card.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/friday-frivolity-an-employees-right-to-a-farewell-card.html</a>

KProfsBlogA 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chatbots</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/promissory-estoppel-claim-based-on-chatbots-promises-dismissed.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/promissory-estoppel-claim-based-on-chatbots-promises-dismissed.html</a>

KProfsBlogWhenever 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Film</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ThomasHardy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasHardy</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/is-a-farmer-a-merchant-thomas-hardy-weighs-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/is-a-farmer-a-merchant-thomas-hardy-weighs-in.html</a>

Paul Giulan<a href="https://federate.social/tags/Gannett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gannett</a> unionized employees and management have reached tentative <a href="https://federate.social/tags/contract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contract</a> deals at 6 newspapers in <a href="https://federate.social/tags/NewJersey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewJersey</a> and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewYork</a> after threatened walkouts<a href="https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/403932/contract-deal-is-reached-walkouts-averted-at-6-ga.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/403932/contract-deal-is-reached-walkouts-averted-at-6-ga.html</a><a href="https://federate.social/tags/NJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NJ</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/NY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NY</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/reporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reporting</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/LocalNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LocalNews</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/walkout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#walkout</a>

Paul Giulan<a href="https://federate.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOD</a> awards <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Scale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scale</a> AI a prototype contract for "Thunderforge" to use <a href="https://federate.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> agents for planning and operations<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/scale-ai-announces-multimillion-dollar-defense-military-deal.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/scale-ai-announces-multimillion-dollar-defense-military-deal.html</a><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hawaii</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Anthropic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anthropic</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWS</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/HuggingFace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HuggingFace</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pentagon</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defense</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#automation</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/cyber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyber</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IT</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#war</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warfare</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a>

KProfsBlogToday, 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?<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scholarship</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crypto</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bankruptcy</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/whats-all-the-fuss-about-bankrupt-crypto-organizations.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/whats-all-the-fuss-about-bankrupt-crypto-organizations.html</a>

KProfsBlogTwo 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Dating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dating</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Coldplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coldplay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/small-claims-court-in-british-columbia-determines-that-coldplay-concert-was-not-a-date.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/small-claims-court-in-british-columbia-determines-that-coldplay-concert-was-not-a-date.html</a>

KProfsBlogThe 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ContractsProfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContractsProfs</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LawTeaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LawTeaching</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Obituaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Obituaries</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/in-memoriam-juliet-moringiello-by-chris-odinet.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/in-memoriam-juliet-moringiello-by-chris-odinet.html</a>

KProfsBlogThe 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 <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scholarship</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crypto</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#property</a> # bankruptcy<a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/-tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-march-4-2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/-tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-march-4-2025.html</a>

KProfsBlogSid DeLong discusses five tips for reading a contracts law case, which are also a master class in how to teach a contracts law case.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teaching</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/sid-delong-on-how-students-should-read-contracts-cases.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/sid-delong-on-how-students-should-read-contracts-cases.html</a>

KProfsBlogPlaintiffs, 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/uber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uber</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/arbitration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arbitration</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TermsOfService</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/uber-eats-order-leads-to-compelled-arbitration-after-uber-car-accident.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/uber-eats-order-leads-to-compelled-arbitration-after-uber-car-accident.html</a>

Chris Castelot Russia InvadesDuring 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?<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canada</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#us</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukraine</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eu</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a>

Howlin' Hobbitmy 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 href="https://musicians.today/tags/advice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#advice</a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a>

KProfsBlogA 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Litigation</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ConstitutionalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConstitutionalLaw</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/district-court-finds-white-house-cannot-first-independent-counsel-by-executive-order.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/district-court-finds-white-house-cannot-first-independent-counsel-by-executive-order.html</a>

KProfsBlogIn 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.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contracts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scholarship</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/reviewing-larry-dimatteo-principles-of-contract-law-and-theory-part-xii.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/reviewing-larry-dimatteo-principles-of-contract-law-and-theory-part-xii.html</a>

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