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Ohio Appellate Insights
What Happened on Remand: Jones v. Centex Homes. Tort Duty to Build Home in Workmanlike Manner. Case Settled.
Case Background Paul Jones and Latosha Sanders bought a new house from Centex Homes. After they moved in, they found that their electronic equipment didn’t work right. They alleged that…
ContractsProf Blog
Guest Post: Robin Kar, The Emerging New Life of Contract Law Studies, Part II
This is the second in a four-part post by Robin Kar that serves as a sort of coda to our virtual symposium on the new book by Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider, More Than You Wanted to Know: The…
Law & Economics Prof Blog
Contract reading costs and mandatory default terms for LLC’s
I was just reading a paper by Chief Justice Strine and Chancellor Laster that is forthcoming in Cornell Law Review. An idea in thepaper is that(a) a lot…
Delaware Chancery Law Blog
LLC Operating Agreements Can Be Binding Even if Not Signed by the Parties
In the case of Seaport Village Ltd. v. Seaport Village Operating Company LLC, C.A. No. 8841-VCL (Sept. 24, 2014), Vice Chancellor Laster found that the operating agreement of a limited…
ContractsProf Blog
Thorough Discussion of the Contractual Issues in the Salaita Case from Robin Kar
We've posted about Robin Kar's recent legal scholarship here and here. Readers can have a look at Kar's method in action in this post on the Illinois Law Faculty Blog.In our first post about the…
ContractsProf Blog
Eighth Circuit Shuts Down the Real Napster CEO
Christopher Gorog was the CEO of Roxio, Inc., which acquired Napster in 2002. He thereby become the CEO of Napster, which was acquired by Best Buy in 2009. Gorog entered…
PropertyProf Blog
Boyack on Common Interest Communities and Freedom of Contract
Andrea Boyack (Washburn) has posted Common Interest Community Covenants and the Freedom of Contract Myth (Brooklyn Journal of Law and Policy) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Courts take a hands-off approach…
ContractsProf Blog
Supreme Court of Ohio Rules in Condition Precedent Case
This is a edited version of a longer post from the Legally Speaking Ohio blog, written by Marianna Brown Bettman (pictured), a law professor at the University of Cincinnati College of…
ContractsProf Blog
Contract Law Rapper
Please do look too closely at my part in this. It is my first lecture in a MOOC. What I think is neat is the contract law rap by rapper.…
Education Law Prof Blog
North Carolina Tenure Repeal Violates Contracts and Takings Clauses
By Derek Black
As promised in an earlier post on the case, I secured the trial court opinion invalidating North Carolina's teacher tenure repeal statute. Interestingly, the decision was not based on due…