Judge Easterbrook tells Metra that it can't force Union Pacific to continue to provide passenger service on three Chicago Regional lines because Union Pacific has no contractual obligation to do so.

#law #contracts #litigation #Chicago #trains

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/chicagos-regional-transportation-authority-and-union-pacific-have-no-contract.html

Oklahoma's culture warrior superintendent of schools has entered into a "partnership" w PragerU so that PragerU misinformation videos are now available on the state Department of Education website. Libs, consider yourself owned.

#law #contracts #GovernmentContracting #Oklahoma #education #CultureWars

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/state-contracts-with-prageru.html

Chemical used in suicide is sold through Amazon. Parents to two teenagers who died using the chemical sue Amazon for, among other things, taking down negative reviews. All claims dismissed.

#law #contracts #CDA§230 #litigation #suicide #poison

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/district-court-dismisses-claims-brought-against-amazon-as-a-seller-of-poison.html

The new Top Tens are out. Nothing new at the top, as contracts scholarship continues to live in the shadow cast by @HoffProf & @ProfArbel. But there is a John Rawls sighting at #5.

#law #contracts #scholarship #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-downloads-for-september-5-2023.html

When I was in practice, we had a case in which the other party tried to claim that he had not signed a loan agreement that bore his notarized signature. The judge called it the stupidest argument he'd ever heard. In today's post, a Bitcoin mining company tries to get out of an agreement it didn't sign. But it accepted the goods & paid per contractual terms. Not quite as dumb, but still dumb.

#law #contracts #arbitration #litigation #Bitcoin

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/bitcoin-mining-company-bound-by-arbitration-agreement-it-never-signed.html

📝 #Dash #Platform introduce i "#Data #Contracts", agevolando gli sviluppatori #Web2 a creare #dApp sul #Web3 con vantaggi come l'indicizzazione e la documentazione semplificata che migliorano l'esperienza.

🤓 Scopri di più:

https://www.dash.org/blog/dash-platform-data-contracts/

First Circuit refused to allow company to get out of paying severance to its CEO by making her an at-will employee but shifting her duties to a new hire.

#law #contracts #litigation #employment

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/first-circuit-finds-companys-termination-of-its-ceo-too-clever-by-half.html

A Texas court needs a dictionary to figure out what "any," "deliver," and "direct" mean. Where's generative interpretation when you really need it?

#law #litigation #contracts #interpretation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/force-majeure-clause-litigated-in-south-texas.html

We have a new installment of our Reefer Brief feature. Unfortunately, this one is about default judgments, as the underlying business seems to have gone up in smoke . . . .

#law #contracts #litigation #marijuana

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/reefer-brief-dude-wheres-my-lawyer.html

SCOTX holds that in order to establish jurisdiction to overcome sovereign immunity, one has to plead facts sufficient to satisfy the statutory exception to immunity, not facts sufficient to show that the K unambiguously waived immunity

#law #contracts #GovernmentContracts #litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/texas-supreme-court-addresses-state-sovereign-immunity-and-construction-contracts.html

Book review up today. This time it is the 5th edition of Understanding Contracts by Jeffrey Ferriell, which is as comprehensive on contracts as A la recherche du temps perdu is on the relationship of memory to sense of self.

#law #contracts #teaching #scholarship #books

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/teaching-assistants-understanding-contracts-by-jeffrey-ferriell.html

One of the people pictured below blind-sided me on the second day of contracts class with a request that I write a blog post about the other. I've been sore all weekend.

#law #contracts #teaching #sports #blindside

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/blind-sided.html

Job opening announcements for contracts law professors today at Rutgers and Mercer Law

#law #contracts #teaching #academia #hiring

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/job-openings-for-contractsprofs.html

Like viewers of "The Colbert Report," regular readers of the ContractsProf Blog are American heroes. Well, heroes, you will be outraged to learn that I have been attacked by another blogger. I set the record straight in today's Weekend Frivolity
#contracts #weblogs #counterattack
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/weekend-frivolity-whos-attacking-me-now.html

Trying to choose between reading @ProfArbel and @HoffProf's "Generative Interpretation" and having an LLM give you the TLDR? There's a third way -- brief review up on the blog today!

#law #contracts #scholarship #ai #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/will-artificial-intelligence-make-contract-interpretation-easier.html

Brian Bix has published his Advanced Introduction to Contract Law and Theory. It's a nifty, slim volume that I recommend to students as they review for exams.

#law #contracts #scholarship #academia #teaching

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/brian-bix-how-do-you-explain-contracts-theory-to-advanced-beginners.html

I know you're all busy reading @Hoffprof & @ProfArbel on Generative Interpretation, but if you teach Williams v. Walker Thomas, you should read Duncan Kennedy's piece next, for a left-wing econ & law perspective on that old chestnut.

#law #contracts #teaching #scholarship #academia #unconsionability

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/duncan-kennedy-on-williams-v-walker-thomas-furniture.html

New Saudi government brings suit in Canada against entity that claims to have been an agent of the old Saudi government, alleging multi-billion $ fraud. Canada grants relief but the state secrets privilege prevents enforcement in the US. Sheesh!

#law #contracts #litigation #SaudiArabia #StateSecrets

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/the-state-secrets-privilege-contracts-potential-fraud-and-the-first-circuit.html

@joevh @yogthos
How we got here:
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187543648/terms-and-conditions-of-service-contracts-clickwrap
#Contracts #TermsOfService

Elon Musk is a good source of contracts hypos. Today on the blog, I spin out some hypos based on his offer to pay the legal fees for anybody "treated unfairly" by their employer due to posts on this site.

#law #contracts #teaching #birdsite #ElonMusk

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/a-contracts-hypo-from-the-x-man-formerly-the-chief-twit.html