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ContractsProf Blog
Employee contract rights overridden by bankruptcy
A Canadian employee who was fired after his company sought bankruptcy protection found himself out of luck in his claim for wrongful termination. In West Bay SonShip Yachts Ltd. v. Esau, Gerald…
ContractsProf Blog
Business Associations Limerick of the Week: Paramount Communications v. Time, Inc.
This case is again very complicated and involves a full panoply of defensive measures. You might think that just a few years after its Revlon decision, the Delaware Supreme Court…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
JDH Capital, LLC v. Flowers, 2009 NCBC 4 (N.C. Super. Ct. Feb. 13, 2009),(Tennille)
The Court granted a Motion for Summary Judgment, finding that a Letter of Intent containing language which said that it did "not create any binding, contractual rights between Flowers and…
ContractsProf Blog
More on Webb v. McGowin
When lumberman James Greeley McGowin died in 1934, his heirs stopped payments that the old man had been making to Joe Webb. The resulting case, as everyone who reads this…
ContractsProf Blog
Ah, that’s probably why he became an American citizen
Rock drummer Mick Fleetwood and four others are suing a Portland (Me.) lawyer after they lost a contract dispute with the British Broadcasting Co. Lawyer Paul McDonald represented Fleetwood (left…
Legal Profession Blog
Contract Language Controls Fee Dispute
In a dispute between lawyers over a $1.9 million award of attorneys' fees in a medical malpractice action, the New York Court of Appeals held that an attorney who had brought in co-counsel…
ContractsProf Blog
More on the AIG Bonus Contracts
A forum on the NYT site "Room for Debate" includes short reactions from Tom Baker, Charles Fried, Frank Snyder, Glenn Greenwald, James P. Tuthill and Deborah W. Post: check it…
The Right Coast
Even if the promise is written in blood . . . Tom Smith
if there's no consideration, it's just a gratuitous promise, so forget it.I think it's fair to say in this case the doctrine of consideration really is a mindless formalism. The…
Media Law Prof Blog
Cell Phone Service Contract Fun
An interesting post from Bob Sullivan of the Red Tape Chronicles regarding his attempt to cancel cellphone service with Sprint, and his subsequent communications with Sprint and the FCC when…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Contract written in human blood held unenforceable by California appeals court
By legalwriting
Get this - the AP reports that two friends went to a combination karaoke bar/sushi restaurant when one of them decides he wants to write an agreement promising the other…