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White House Stands Up For Contracts

Posted on February 27, 2008
According to CNN, the White House has issued a warning to Democrats that President Bush will veto a pending bill that would create a $4 billion fund to help state and local government buy homes abandoned in the mortgage crisis....

Courts Should Not Imply Employment Contracts in U.K.

Posted on February 27, 2008
When is someone who works for an employer an "employee"? The question can be significant in the U.K., where "employees" have certain rights that "agency employees" do not. Agency employees are those who work for employment agencies, who in turn...

Gooooooooooal! Real Madrid!

Posted on February 27, 2008
It's good that somebody keeps track of these things. Most soccer (football) fans are probably focused on such mundane things as how many games their teams win. But the accountants at Deloitte Touche are always focused on the most important...

Blogger in Contract with Warner Brothers

Posted on February 26, 2008
Would you pay this man $100,000 to pick music for you? If you answered "Yes!" you must be corporate America. According to the New York Times, Warner Brothers is negotiating a deal with Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., better known as...

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Regulating Service Contracts in the EC

Posted on February 26, 2008
The European Community has been working toward a system for encouraging and regulating an internal market in services. How it's going about that task is the subject of Regulatory Strategies on Services Contracts in EC Law, a new paper by...

Students Mull Breach of Contract Action

Posted on February 26, 2008
Students at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario, are considering breach of contract actions against the institution's Board of Governors, which voted this week to terminate a geology program for alleged lack of student interest. Critical students point out that Sudbury...

Weekly Top Ten

Posted on February 25, 2008
It's been a pretty good week for Christopher Patterson (Florida), who sees two of his recent papers land in the top three this week. All in all, there are four new papers and six returnees. Following are the top ten...

Bluebook Enters 20th Century

Posted on February 25, 2008
The second-best-selling law book in history (right behind Deuteronomy) is now on the web. Yep, the 18th edition of the Uniform System of Citation (better known as the Bluebook) is now available on line. You can thus now actually search...

The Predictive Power of This Blog

Posted on February 24, 2008
Sports fans were probably surprised by the Chicago Bulls' 135-121 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Friday, since that was the most points the Bulls have scored in a game since 1991. But Contracts Profs Blogs readers knew it was...

CISG Conference at Touro Law Center

Posted on February 24, 2008
While Frank is on the topic of conferences at Touro, I should mention the CISG conference which my colleague Jack Graves has organized. It will be held on Friday, April 11, 2008. All the relevant details: here. [Meredith R. Miller]

Call for Papers: Business Law and Technology

Posted on February 24, 2008
If you're working in the areas of law and technology, you'll be interested in the upcoming 2nd Annual Conference on Business, Law, & Technology, scheduled for June 17-19, 2008, at the Jacob Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in New...

Poetic License

Posted on February 24, 2008
Australian poet and critic Les Murray has offered a deal to any publisher who wants a "blurb" from him on a new poetry book. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, on February 13th, Murray wrote to the poetry editor of...

Higher Wages Can't Count as Reimbursement

Posted on February 23, 2008
California employers and their employees cannot agree to a system under which the worker gets a higher wage and pays his or her own business expenses, according to a recent decision by the state supreme court. The California Labor Code...

Embattled Hoosier Coach Takes Contract Buyout

Posted on February 23, 2008
We previously noted the contractual issues surrounding the termination of Indiana University basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, who was charged with violating NCAA rules and lying about it. Now come reports that Sampson, who denies any wrongdoing, will accept a $750,000...

UCC Article 1 Legislative Update (2/22)

Posted on February 22, 2008
As of January 1, 2008, Revised UCC Article 1 was in effect in 28 states -- Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina,...

Help Wanted

Posted on February 22, 2008
Upstate New York is beautiful in the fall, and beautiful in the winter, too, if you've got someone to shovel the snow for you. So think about spending the year where the Vale of Onondaga meets the Eastern Sky (left)...

Supreme Court: Arbitration Clause Trumps State Law

Posted on February 22, 2008
Law professors keep writing about the problems with pre-dispute arbitration clauses and their possible interference with important public interests. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court keeps ignoring all that advice. Latest win for the pro-arbitration forces is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's...

Dispute Resolution and Strategic Sellers

Posted on February 22, 2008
Pre-dispute arbitration agreements carry with them the possibility that sellers who include such clauses in End User License Agreements may do so strategically -- that is, that they may use them to gain a systematic advantage over buyers. Do sellers....

Evangelicals and Payday Loans

Posted on February 21, 2008
Traditional American usury law has always been heavily influenced by a Biblical tradition that has disfavored lending money at interest. The prohibition of lending money at interest has been condemned at least since Plato, and was completely banned to Christians...

Five Illustrated Tips for Negotiating Non-Competes

Posted on February 20, 2008
Forbes.com has an article advising employees (and presumably independent contractors) in their negotiation of non-compete clauses. I much prefer the "in pictures" version of the advice. The 5 tips mirror my classroom teaching on the subject: (1) consult with an...

Trouble for Hoosier Hoops

Posted on February 20, 2008
The NCAA has alleged that Indiana University men's basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson, lied to NCAA investigators and violated NCAA rules. What he allegedly lied about was impermissible phone contacts with potential recruits for his team. Samspon is quoted by ESPN...

Store Closing! Everything Must Go!

Posted on February 20, 2008
Folks who think they're getting great deals at furniture store going-out-of-business sales may be in for a rude surprise. It seems buyers who think they're taking advantage of a distressed retailer are actually the ones getting stung. Furniture liquidators who...

That's Probably Why It's Considered "Timeless"

Posted on February 20, 2008
One of the pleasures of having been educated in the California State Public School System from kindergarten through college is the large number of very famous books you never actually had to read. This means that it's now possible to...

Sub-Primary Loans

Posted on February 20, 2008
In a story published on Saturday (arriving in Valparaiso by Pony Express today), The Washington Post reports that Senator John McCain took out a $1 million loan two weeks before the New Hampshire primary in order to keep his then-cash-starved...

Mysteries of the Universe Explained

Posted on February 19, 2008
To the left is Jason Kidd. Until recently, Kidd was the point guard for the New Jersey Nets. He's good enough at his job that he was voted to the All Star Team this year, despite his team's disappointing first-half...

Contracting in Wartime

Posted on February 19, 2008
At the Fourth International Conference on Contracts, Jennifer S. Martin (University of Pittsburgh) presented a very interesting paper, Contracting for Wartime Actors: The Limits of the Contract Paradigm. Here is the abstract from SSRN: Much can be (and has been)...

Frank Snyder Naked!!

Posted on February 19, 2008
Okay, I admit it! This is really just about improving the rankings of the blog. But what a cutey!! Typical Snyder modesty. [Jeremy Telman]

This Blog Thing Might Just Catch On

Posted on February 19, 2008
The indefatigable Paul Caron, boss of TaxProf Blog and capo di tutti capi of the Law Professor Blog Network, is at it again with a new ranking of blogs written by law professors. Caron first started doing this in his...

State Sues Over UConn Law Library

Posted on February 19, 2008
The University of Connecticut School of Law thought it was getting a new landmark when it spent $24 million for a new library in 1996. It did, but it also wound up with a $15 million lawsuit to go along...

New Fad: Suing for $54 Million

Posted on February 19, 2008
As she reports on her very revealing blog, sometime in 2006 Raelyn Campbell bought an extended warranty along with a laptop computer from Best Buy. To make a long story short, Ms. Campbell's computer malfunctioned in May 2007, and the...

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