This Blog has had numerous posts about the interactions between contractual obligations and First Amendment rights. The most recent post is here, about a graduate student dismissed for giving a student a bad grade. Last year, there was this
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Tuesday Tips: Yehuda Adar & Efi Zemach on Reliance as Promise
Reliance as Promise (63 Am. Bus. L. J., forthcoming)
Yehuda Adar & Efi Zemach
When courts award reliance damages as a standalone remedy for breach of contract, what precisely are they doing, and why? For decades, this seemingly straightforward question has sparked a surprisingly unsettled
Ninth Circuit Orders Supertramp’s Songwriting Duo to Give a Little Bit to the Band’s Other Members
There are so many cases like this one. There was a Lynyrd Skynyrd case long ago. There’s Megadeth’s case. We’ve had the Journey case. We’ve done The Romantics’ case. Mötley Crüe signed a death pact, but they soon returned
Court Cannot Order Trash Collection When Interruption Caused by Strike
Six Massachusetts municipalities sought injunctive relief in the Essex County Superior Court. They submitted affidavits from municipal officials attesting to various harms resulting from various trash collection services’ failure, since July 1, 2025, to abide by their contractual obligations to
AI May Be Coming for Your Job . . . But Not Just Yet
Derek Muller (below) of the Law School of the University of Notre Dame has a Substack called Law School Docket. A recent post draws on an article that appeared on Law.com (subscription required) to tell two divergent stories. One
Tuesday Tips for the Week of March 30th
Chris Odinet, Andrea Tosato, & Yesha Yadav
Yesha Yadav
Abstract
Money is omnipresent. Yet defining its fundamental character proves surprisingly difficult. Functional descriptions tell us what money does, not what money is, and they certainly do
Are Costco Customers Entitled to Their Share of the Tariff Refunds?
We are empty nesters now. Do we really need eighteen rolls of paper towels or 660 napkins? Well, no, probably not. But we do still need forty or so pounds of cat litter on the regular? Absolutely! Our nest isn’t
Judge Lamberth to Kari Lake: No, You’re Fired!
Until the current administration, there were laws in place that protected federal workers’ tenure in office. The upside of such laws is that the country has a cadre of trained specialists who cannot be deprived of their jobs for political
Law Review Contracts and AI
We have posted here before about law review contracts — that is, the largely adhesive contracts that journals seek to impose on authors after the authors have committed to publishing a work of scholarship in a particular journal. Dave Hoffman
Two News Items about Kalshi. . .
I am a boomer. I grew up with federal agencies empowered to maintain a level playing field in securities markets and with federal and state laws that regulate gambling, including bets on criminal acts such as assassinations and bets on