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Gee, whiz

Posted on November 10, 2010
Our beloved Mother Ship, the Association of American Law Schools, has announced that Elwood Gordon Gee, the President of Ohio State University, will be a featured speaker at the group's annual barn raising and bean feed, which will take place...

Man bites dog: Supreme Court hears contract case

Posted on November 10, 2010
Oral arguments went down yesterday in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, the U.S. Supreme Court case that involves California's invalidation of a class-action-suit waiver in the arbitration clause in a consumer constract. Here's the link to the argument...

Law schools and the changing legal job market

Posted on November 10, 2010
Via our colleagues at TaxProf, this piece by William Henderson (Indiana-Bloomington), looking at how changes in law practice will affect the historically credential-heavy recruitment of young lawyers. It's an interesting piece, and I agree with much of what he's talking...

Superior bargaining power, for sure

Posted on November 10, 2010
It's not clear whether this is duress, or undue influence, or unconscionability, or something else, but Charyl Preston (Utah) passes on this link she got from a student: FGS

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Can't pierce veil for contract claim absent fraud or improper use

Posted on November 09, 2010
Allegations of breach of contract by a subsidiary corporation aren?t enough to pierce the corporate veil in Massachusetts, absent "allegations of fraudulent or improper use of [the other entitie?s] corporate form in a manner related to the contract. That?s the...

Today in History -- November 9

Posted on November 09, 2010
1620 ? Emigrants aboard the 180-ton cargo vessel Mayflower, trying to find Manhattan Island, instead get their first sign of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 1857 ? The Atlantic magazine is founded at Boston. It will later publish an article by Charles...

Epstein on getting out of public pension contracts

Posted on November 09, 2010
Chicago?s Richard Epstein, on whether states may be able to repudiate some of their pension liabilities and bring public pensions in line with those in the private sector: I think that the . . . sensible approach is to side-step...

The difference between argument and contradiction

Posted on November 09, 2010
Via Jake Linford at Prawfsblawg, one of the great (sort of law-related) Python sketches of all time: Linford also has some good thoughts about how to use sound recordings of appellate arguments to enliven class discussion of cases. FGS

Strange bedfellows

Posted on November 09, 2010
Odd couple of the day: A former Alaska governor-turned-housewife, and the President of the World Bank. When you figure that these two seem to agree with China, Russia, and Germany, it may be a sign of the Apocalypse. FGS

News Briefs: Tuesday

Posted on November 09, 2010
NOVEMBER 9, 2010 MIAMI: "A promoter and booking agent has filed suit against Cuba?s iconic band Los Van Van (below) and its leader Juan Formell to stop a planned U.S. tour." LONDON: "Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will ask a London...

Smaller government, more tax revenue, cheaper booze . . . .

Posted on November 09, 2010
The New York Times says Pennsylvania is looking a privatizing the liquor business in the state. The proposal to get the state out of selling booze (it currently runs some 600 stores statewide) could net the Keystone State $2 billion...

Oklahoma attorney fee statute doesn't cover breach of agency K

Posted on November 08, 2010
Oklahoma has a statute that provides: "In any civil action to recover for labor or services rendered, or on an open account, a statement of account, account stated, note, bill, negotiable instrument, or contract relating to the purchase or sale...

Today in History -- November 8

Posted on November 08, 2010
1308 ? The Doctor Subtilis, the Blessed John Duns Scotus, dies at age 43 at the Franciscan studium at Cologne. 1519 ? Hern�n Cort�s enters the Aztec city of Tenochtitl�n. Emperor Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration, but later...

News Briefs: Monday

Posted on November 08, 2010
NOVEMBER 8. 2010 . . . . HOLLYWOOD: "Hollywood actors' unions and major studios announced Sunday they had reached a new, three-year contract averting the kind of strike that paralyzed the US entertainment industry for 100 days in 2008." BERLIN:...

Harvard betting on inflation

Posted on November 08, 2010
Via Taxprof, the report that the World's Wealthiest Universitty,TM after piling up a cash hoard outside its endowment of over a billion dollars, is now raising another billion from the bond markets. The money will pay down existing debt and...

Today in History -- November 7

Posted on November 07, 2010
680 ? The Third Council of Constantinople opens. It will subsequently condemn the heresy of monotheletism, the notion that Christ had only a single (divine) will. 1492 ? With an explosion that can be heard 80 miles away, a flaming...

Weekly Top Ten

Posted on November 07, 2010
Following are the Top 10 most-downloaded papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending November 7, 2010. (Last week's ranking in parentheses.) 1 (1) Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land...

Today in History -- November 6

Posted on November 06, 2010
1528 ? Shipwreck survivor �lvar N��ez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in what will become Texas. 1789 ? Pope Pius VI confirms the appointment of John Carroll as Bishop of Baltimore, the first Catholic...

Olbermann joins Juan Williams?

Posted on November 05, 2010
MSNBC talker Keith Olbermann has been put on indefinite unpaid leave after it was revealed he made $7,200 in campaign donations to Democratic candidates. This apparently violated MSNBC "ethics" rules. Given the amount of money that Olbermann's boss, General Electric...

News in Brief -- November 5, 2010

Posted on November 05, 2010
LUTON (U.K.): Britain?s National Health Service Primary Care Trusts are threatening to use a clause in their General Medical Services contracts to impose fines on medical practices that prescribe generic drugs at below-average rates. BOSTON: "The Red Sox are exercising...

Today in History -- November 5

Posted on November 05, 2010
1605 ? Guy Fawkes is discovered lurking in the cellar below the House of Lords , where he was carrying out a plan to blow up Parliament. Understandable, though unwise. 1688 ? William of Orange lands at Brixham with a...

News in Brief -- November 4, 2010

Posted on November 04, 2010
LOS ANGELES: "It looks like Hollywood heartthrob Shia Labeouf's film Disturbia may not see the light of day as it has been hit by a second lawsuit." LONDON: "The prospect of British Airways passengers facing strikes over Christmas appears to...

Do authors owe fiduciary duties to their agents?

Posted on November 04, 2010
That's just one of the questions raised in a lawsuit brought by literary agent Peter Lampack against bedstselling author Martha Grimes. A New York Supreme Court reportedly has thrown out most of the allegations, which arose out of an option...

Today in History -- November 4

Posted on November 04, 2010
1677 ? Mary Stuart, niece of King Charles II, marries William, Prince of Orange. She and William will later invade England and drive her father, James II, from the throne. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an ungrateful chil,"...

SF kids should get burgers, nuggets & Cokes at school, not McDonald's

Posted on November 04, 2010
San Francisco's city elders love their kids. You can tell this because the city school budget this year has slashed funding for summer school, after-school programs, and drug education. Safety officers at schools are seeing their hours cut, resulting in...

Spoils system

Posted on November 04, 2010
Not really much to do with contracts -- except maybe for a wrongful discharge claim -- but in St. Joseph, Missouri, the deputy court clerk who defeated her boss in Tuesday's election to become Buchanan County clerk has been fired....

Happy birthday to us!

Posted on November 04, 2010
We started this blog six years ago today. Thanks to all who've blogged and even more to all who've read and encouraged us over the years. It's been fun. And real. And even real fun. FGS

One of the Best Parts of Ricky Martin?s Book is a?. Contract

Posted on November 04, 2010
Ricky Martin (musician of Menudo and then La Vida Loca fame) has written an autobiography titled Me. Gawker selflessly reads Martin?s book and provides the highlights (so that you don?t have to). Some readers might be interested to learn that,...

News Briefs: November 3, 2010

Posted on November 03, 2010
SAN DIEGO: "Pitcher] Jon Garland declined his $6.75 mutual option with the Padres for 2011 and will test the free agent waters." KAMPALA: "The [Uganda] ministry of Trade has finally suspended the pre-inspection of [imported] goods and used motor vehicle...

The good side of outsourcing

Posted on November 03, 2010
The term "outsourcing" in the popular mind means sending work overseas. But outsourcing (even to domestic firms) is a concept that small businesses can use to improve their bottom line, according to Bob Reiss in his book, Bootstrapping 101: Tips...

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