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Weekly Top Ten from the Social Science Research Network

Posted on January 18, 2011
RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal November 19, 2010 to January 18, 2011 RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 636 Mortgage Servicing Adam J. Levitin, Tara Twomey,...

How to Walk Away From Your Contract with AT&T To Get a Verizon Iphone

Posted on January 17, 2011
Yes, it is finally true, Apple's exclusive deal with AT&T is over, and the Iphone will now be available from Verizon. Verizon is widely believed to be a much more reliable carrier (though, some question whether the Iphone will test...

Court of Federal Claims Finds No Breach of Implied Contract of Fair Dealing

Posted on January 17, 2011
On January 11, 2011, the Court of Federal Claims issued its opinion and order in Resource Conservation Group, LLC v. United States. The case involved the plaintiff's bid to lease property that had once been the U.S. Naval Academy's dairy...

Breaking: U.S. Renews Contract with Spotted Ground Squirrels Through 2015

Posted on January 17, 2011
Trusted reporting from the Onion; read it here. An excerpt: "We're happy to have finally reached an agreement with this vital American species, and we thank all the ground squirrels who have been carrying on in good faith for the...

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?And the Golden Globe goes to?the Parol Evidence Rule!?

Posted on January 14, 2011
The telecast of the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards Ceremony is this Sunday, January 16th. Although True Grit was rumored to be the favorite for ?Best Use of Contract Law in a Western or Documentary? here, it appears to have...

Federal Contractors and Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Harassment Claims

Posted on January 14, 2011
As reported in the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) Federal Contracts Report (subscription necessary, alas) -- and nowhere else that I can find on the web -- on December 8, 2010, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued its final rule...

A New Contracts Defense: Killer Bees

Posted on January 14, 2011
In my contracts class, we?ve just begun our study of standard contracts defenses. Interestingly, via the Consumerist, here's a very non-standard attempt to get out of a contract, based on an alleged infestation of an RV by Killer Bees. Having...

Deadline Approaching for Spring Contracts Conference Hotel

Posted on January 13, 2011
At 11:00 AM last Friday, the chant went up loud and clear in San Francisco: "What do we want?" "Contracts!" "When do we want 'em?" "Now!" Were I in Valparaiso, where I have trained my first-year students to initiate this...

Welcome to the Blog, Heidi Anderson!

Posted on January 13, 2011
Before stepping down as our Dear Leader, Frank Snyder recruited some new additions to our line-up of contributing editors, and I will have the pleasure of introducing them as they begin posting on the blog. The first such sucker new...

Labor Dispute at the New York City Ballet

Posted on January 12, 2011
Balletomanes throughout the Great Flyover let out a collective "Hot Diggety!" when we learned that the New York City Ballet was to create a touring company so that the unwashed masses can soon be awash in the creations of George...

Weekly Top Ten from the Social Science Research Network

Posted on January 11, 2011
RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal October 31, 2010 to December 30, 2010 Our own Meredith Miller continues to lead the pack -- three...

The Gates of Hell[ish Mandatory Arbitration]?

Posted on January 11, 2011
Thanks to Michigan State University's Daniel Barnhizer and his student Christpher Anderson, we have the picture at right, which Mr. Anderson found taped to a local burger franchise while he was home in Texas for the holidays. If you can't...

An Introduction to Our Roundtable on General Dynamics and Boeing

Posted on January 10, 2011
On January 18th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument on a pair of consolidated contracts cases. The issue before the court is the state secrets privilege, a subject on which the court has not weighed in since it created...

Melanie Thernstrom on Surrogacy in the New York Times Magazine

Posted on January 07, 2011
Two years ago, we posted about a New York Times Magazine article by Alex Kuczynski in which she recounts her experience as the mother of a child born through the use of a surrogate mother. That article was problematic for...

AALS Meeting Affected By Labor Dispute

Posted on January 06, 2011
As many readers of this blog already know, many of us are currently in San Francisco attending the annual meeting of our bricks and mortar mother ship, the Association of American Law Schools. That meeting has been the subject of...

Contract Issues in True Grit

Posted on January 05, 2011
Here is a trailer for the Coen Brothers' True Grit. I expected to love this Coen Brothers' film, as I love most of their work, but I did not expect that the first half hour of the film would consist...

Update on Madoff Mutual Mistake Case: NY Appellate Division Reverses

Posted on January 05, 2011
We've been following the Madoff mutual mistake case -- that is, the lawsuit (also previously mentioned here and here) by a Paul Weiss partner to unravel a divorce settlement that included a payout to his wife for the right to...

American Airlines Wins Favorable Ruling in Fight with Orbitz

Posted on January 04, 2011
Last week, Judge Martin Agran of the Cook County Circuit Court issued a ruling in Travelport, LP v. American Airlines, Inc. Case No. 10 CH 48028. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find the opinion on the web, so I...

Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network

Posted on January 04, 2011
RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) October 31, 2010 to December 30, 2010 TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 201 Party Autonomy in Rome I...

AALS Contracts Section Annual Meeting Program

Posted on December 30, 2010
Speaking of next week's AALS annual meeting, please plan to attend the Contracts Section's annual meeting program, Navigating Lombard Street in a Fog: Seeking (or Ignoring) Landmarks of Intent and Context, next Thursday, January 6th, from 2:00 to 5:00 p...

Now in Print (with a Futurama twist)

Posted on December 30, 2010
Happy New Year's Eve eve! Here's the final installment of "Now in Print" for 2010. It's chock full of interesting items because Kwanzaa-Bot told us you'd (almost all) been good girls, boys, and androids. We plan to continue keeping you...

DeBeers UK Ltd. v. Atos Origins IT Services UK Ltd

Posted on December 30, 2010
We love websites that provide links to actual legal decisions. As Leopold von Ranke put it, you need to consult original sources in order to reconstruct events wie es eigentlich gewesen, and that is our aspiration here. So, we tip...

Lady Duff Deschanel?

Posted on December 29, 2010
Thanks to the New York Daily News and eonline.com, we are well-informed regarding Zooey Deschanel v. Steve Madden, Ltd., a case in which the actress and singer (pictured, left) is claiming that various entities and individuals associated with the famous...

Weekly Top Ten from the Social Science Research Network

Posted on December 28, 2010
Very exciting news this week in the top ten for followers of the blog because our own Meredith Miller is topping the Law & Society Contracts list. Way to rack up the downloads, Meredith! RECENT HITS (for all papers announced...

Production Company Behind "Black Swan" Sues Former Chief

Posted on December 27, 2010
As reported in the New York Daily News here, Overnight LLC, the production company behind "Black Swan," the latest film about psychotic ballet dancers, is suing Aaron Kaufman, its former chief executive. Overnight alleges that Kaufman bailed out on the...

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2010
Best holiday wishes from Bangkok! FGS

Merger Clause Defeats Breach of Contract Action in Wisconsin

Posted on December 23, 2010
Kudos to the State Bar of Wisconsin for some excellent legal reporting. Joe Forward, a legal writer for the Bar, has posted a thorough case summary of a recent contracts dispute, Town Bank v. City Real Estate Development LLC, 2010...

6th International Conference on Contracts

Posted on December 23, 2010
Stetson University College of Law and Texas Wesleyan School of Law are co-sponsoring the 6th Annual International Conference on Contracts, February 18 and 19, 2011, at Stetson?s beautiful campus in Gulfport, Fla. Similar to previous contracts conferences held at UNLV,...

Paris Hilton Sued for Breach of Contract

Posted on December 22, 2010
I know. It is hardly news that Paris Hilton (PH) is being sued for breach on contract. I mean, haven't we already run the same headline here, here, and here. But this is a new case, and the more pictures...

Weekly Top Ten from the Social Science Research Network

Posted on December 21, 2010
No really hot scholarship --based on downloads, anyway -- this week. Contracts scholars, this is your chance to break into the big time. RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of...

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