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Kill Lancome!

Posted on May 11, 2008
Uma Thurman is mad. In fact, I haven't seen her this mad since Michael Madsen shot her in the chest, took her samurai sword and buried her alive. She is no longer mad at Bill. No, no, that's all in...

Rumors from the Campaign Trail II

Posted on May 10, 2008
Here's another rumor that is circulating: At the height of the Lewinsky scandal, Bill Clinton (pictured saying "I did not have sex with that woman . . . " -- well, no, not really) promised Hillary that if she stuck...

Rumors from the Campaign Trail

Posted on May 10, 2008
I have heard many versions of a rumor of a contract between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The deal is that she will get out of the race if he will get her campaign out of its debt . ....

Congress May Close Loophole for Defense Contractors

Posted on May 09, 2008
According to the Associated Press, as reported in the Orlando Sentinel, Congress is moving to close a loophole that until now has permitted military contractors to avoid paying taxes and evade the strictures of U.S. employment law by setting up...

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Drafting Conference at Emory Law School

Posted on May 09, 2008
On May 30-31, 2008, Emory Law School will be hosting a conference entitled "Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and Beyond." Given recent discussions on this blog (here) and recently scholarship on the subject (noted here) and scholarly interest...

More International Contracts Law Scholarship

Posted on May 06, 2008
Florida Coastal School of Law's Charles Martin (pictured) recently published The Electronic Contracts Convention, the CISG, and New Sources of E-Commerce Law in 16 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 (Fall 2007). Here's the abstract: Although no non-European...

Limerick of the Week: Gay Jensen Farms Co. v. Cargill, Inc.

Posted on May 05, 2008
Gay Jensen Farms Co. v. Cargill Inc. is a great case for teaching the very important principle that contractual relations, including agency relations, can be implied through conduct. In this case, the Warren Grain & Seed company defaulted on contracts...

People Is Stoopid: $5 Million Baby Pictures

Posted on May 05, 2008
Question: What kind of person would expose her children to ruthless paparazzi just in order to make a few bucks? Answer: The kind of person who doesn't need the money in the first place. Today's New York Times reports that...

The Army Lawyer: Special Contracts Issue

Posted on May 04, 2008
The Army Lawyer's January 2008 issue is a special issue devoted to "Contracts and Fiscal Law Developments of 2007 -- The Year in Review. As the Table of Contents indicates, much of the issue is taken up with developments in...

Peter Alces in University of Illinois Law Review

Posted on May 04, 2008
Peter Alces (pictured) of the William and May School of Law has just published Unintelligent Design in Contract, in the University of Illinois Law Review. Here is the abstract: Scholars have expended considerable energy in the effort to ?discover? a....

New Contracts Scholarship

Posted on May 04, 2008
Jody Kraus's: From Langdell to Law and Economics: Two Conceptions of Stare Decisis in Contract Law and Theory, has just come out in the Virginia Law Review. Here's the abstract: In his classic monograph, The Death of Contract, Grant Gilmore...

The CISG: The Rodney Dangerfield of Treaties

Posted on May 02, 2008
In their new case comment, All Quiet on the CISG Frong: Guiliani v. Invar Manufacturing, the Battle of the Forms, and the Edlusive Concept of Terminus Fixus, James M. Klotz, Peter Mazzacano and friend of the Blog, Antonin I. Pribetic...

The General Services Administration: A Victim of "Terrorism"

Posted on May 02, 2008
According to the Wall Street Journal (see story "The Ousting of Lurita Doan"), Lurita Doan (pictured), as chief of the General Services Administration, oversaw "tens of billions of dollars in government contracts" with the help of inspectors general. In her...

New Topical Category: Limericks

Posted on May 01, 2008
Thanks to Joe Hodnicki of the Law Professors Blog Network and to Frank Snyder, whose limitless indulgence permits me to post here, we now have a new topical category for the Limericks fans out there. It has not yet been...

WSJ: Meet the New Boss

Posted on April 30, 2008
When The News Corporation bought Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, the Bancroft family, which held a controlling interest in Dow Jones, put up a fight in an attempt to protect the Journal's independence. The News...

Limerick of the Week: Gorton v. Doty

Posted on April 29, 2008
After a long hiatus from Limerick posting, I have decided to share with the blog's readership a selection from Volume II of my collection of Limericks for Lawyers. Volume II summarizes cases covered in my Business Associations course, but many...

Girls Gone Litigious?!?

Posted on April 29, 2008
What do you get when you cross Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the woman with whom former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer allegedly had some very expensive private encounters, with the Girls Gone Wild franchise? a. A law suit. b. A perfect...

Alamo and National Sue Orbitz

Posted on April 28, 2008
According to the St. Louis Business Journal, Alamo Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental are suing Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. for breach of contract, alleging that Orbitz has violated its online listing agreement with the two companies and has and improperly removed...

No Punitive Damages in Genentech Case

Posted on April 28, 2008
Last week, the California Supreme Court upheld a $300 million verdict on a breach of contract claim against the biotechnology company Genentech (HQ pictured) but struck the $200 million award of punitive damages, according to the San Francisco Chronicle...

"Greed Is Good" Guy Sued

Posted on April 27, 2008
As TMZ.com puts it, "A guy that once starred in a movie with Michael Douglas, then became his business partner, is suing the Oscar winner, claiming he got screwed out of millions." Now that's good reporting. Want to know the...

Senate to Employees: You're on Your Own

Posted on April 24, 2008
In Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that Title VII required that a plaintiff allege that defendant acted with discriminatory intent in making adverse pay decisions during the 180 days prior...

"Family Guy" Writers Sue Fox

Posted on April 24, 2008
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Seth MacFarlane and 15 other writers of the animated sitcom "Family Guy" are suing 20th Century Fox TV,alleging breach of contract and other claims. The writers allege that Fox has violated its contract with the...

Handwritten Letter of Intent Worth $10.5 Million

Posted on April 22, 2008
According to Newsday.com, a jury has awarded $10.5 million to internet executive Alfred West in his suit to enforce a handwritten agrement with IDT Corp. According to the report, West met with IDT founder and chairman Howard S. Jonas on...

Breaking 19th-Century News

Posted on April 21, 2008
National Public Radio reports that a 77-year-old Tampa woman is suing the city for its failure to repay a $300 loan made by her great-grandfather to the City of Tampa during the Civil War. Assuming 147 years of interest at...

There's No Crying in Baseball Contracting

Posted on April 21, 2008
Portfolio.com reports here on the death of mega-contracts in baseball. Yes, we're thinking of you, Troy Tulowitzki (pictured), and also of Evan Longoria. These are two young baseball players who signed rich but not jaw-dropping contracts with their teams either...

Bear Market for Job Seekersh

Posted on April 20, 2008
The New York Times reports that JP Morgan has notified new Bear Stearns hires that they will not be needed. But the unemployed recruits can still keep what the Times calls a consolation prize -- they can keep their signing...

Vermont and Pennsylvania Enact Revised Article 1; Tennessee and Illinois Progress Toward Enactment

Posted on April 18, 2008
Governor Jim Douglas signed Vermont HB 563 into law on April 10. Governor Ed Rendell did likewise to Pennsylvania HB 1152 on April 16. Pennsylvania HB 1152, by its terms, takes effect on or about June 15, 2008. Vermont HB...

A Contractual Right to Single-Sex Education

Posted on April 15, 2008
According to the Associated Press, the Virginia Supreme Court heard on Monday from Wyatt B. Durrette, Jr., attorney for women students admitted to the Randolph Macon Women's College (now known as Randolph College) who have alleged that the college's governing...

Class Action v. Southwest Airlines

Posted on April 15, 2008
The International Herald Tribune reports that four Southwest Airlines passengers are bringing a federal action alleging breach of contract and other causes of action relating to missed inspections of airplanes over a six-year period. According to plaintiffs' lawyer Lew Garrison,...

Trouble on the Treasure Coast

Posted on April 13, 2008
The Cyberknife Center of Florida's Treasure Coast is suing the St. Lucie Medical Center (SLMC) in a Marin County court for fraud and breach of contract. Cyberknife opened a multimillion dollar cancer center last summer but closed it in January...

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