ContractsProf Blog
Covers news, cases, legal education and limericks mainly relating to the realm of contracts.
Author: Franklin G. Snyder, a law professor at Texas Wesleyan University Law School is the primary editor of ContractsProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professors Blog Network. Also contributing to the blog: Miriam A. Cherry, an associate professor of the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law; Meredith R. Miller, an assistant professor at Touro Law Center; Keith A. Rowley, a professor at University of Nevada-Las Vegas; and D. A. Jeremy Telman, an assistant professor at Valparaiso University Law School.
Blawg Related Categories: Contracts • Law Professors • Texas Wesleyan University • Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center • University of Minnesota • University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law • University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law • Valparaiso University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from ContractsProf Blog
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Speaking of Unconscionability: New Mexico Supremes Refuse to Enforce Class Action Waiver
According to the ABA Journal Online, last week, the New Mexico Supreme Court refused to enforce a class action waiver in consumer contracts with Dell Inc. (The consumers sued Dell alleging misrepresentation about the amount…
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Now in Print
- Christina Bohannan, Copyright Preemption of Contracts, 67 Md. L. Rev. 616-671 (2008). - Edith M. Brown and Charlene L. Smith, Match Point: All in the Timing, Luck, and Mutual Mistake, 32 Okla. City U.…
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Sonics to Move to Oklahoma; Seattle Grieves
We reported earlier on a breach of contract action brought by the Seattle Sonics' former owner Howard Schultz against the new owners of the NBA basketball team, alleging that the new owners had planned all…
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Rush, You're No Howard Stern
The Wall Street Journal reports that Rush Limbaugh (pictured) and Clear Channel have agreed to an eight-year $400 million contract, entailing a salary of $38 million/year plus a $100 million signing bonus. Not bad, but…
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An Interesting New Unconscionability Decision
Thanks to the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law's Larry Garvin for sharing with us details and commentary on Knudsen v. Lax, 842 N.Y.S.2d 341 (Co. Ct. 2007), a recent case in which tenants…
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Nine-Year-Old in Football Contract Dispute
One of the images at left is a human brain. The other is a football. Tony Mathis carries something like at least one of these objects in his skull at all times. You be the…
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Phil Spector's Continuing Legal Problems
When we last left Phil Spector, he was looking exceedingly creepy while being found not guilty (due to a hung jury) of murder charges in the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson in Spector's home.…
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Limerick of the Week: Majestic Realty
This may not be the best Limerick I've ever composed, but I think it among my most useful. It pretty much sums up the case and states the relevant exception to the rule that parties…
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It Depends What You Mean By “Occupying” The Vehicle
Insurance disputes often provide the most interesting interpretation issues. Take for example this recent appellate case out of New York’s Third Department. Plaintiff truck driver was struck by a hit-and-run driver while standing on the…
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Contracts Prof Snubbed in New Collection of Limericks
Limericks seem to be in the news a lot lately. As reported in the Washington Times, Ernest W. LeFever has just published Liberating the Limerick, which includes 230 representative examples of the undersigned's preferred poetic…