Just in time for the new semester,
@guyrub.bsky.social, Ethan Leib,
@pamelabookman.bsky.social
, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, Tal Kastner, & @jakelinford.bsky.social have made available a new open-source contracts casebook.
#contracts
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New Top Tens are out. SSRN’s list covers contracts and commercial law, and very few of today’s top tens are about contracts. Bummer for us.
Update on the fate of @mauraf.bsky.social, who has left a tenured position at Muhlenberg College and academia because she was likely going to be fired for her anti-Zionist views despite faculty and AAUP support. All is not well in the academy.
#law #contracts #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Palestine #zionism
Another story I learned of from the Money Stuff Podcast: Musician charged with scheme to make $10 million from streaming services by programing bots to make hundreds of songs that other bots streamed 24/7.
Thanks to The Money Stuff Podcast for sharing blogworthy content. Man in prison for stealing $22 million from the Jacksonville Jaguars to bet on FanDuel now sues FanDuel for $250 million.
#law #contracts #Sports #Gambling #Embezzlement #litigation #Addiction
The long-awaited fourth edition of of the Vlog "Contracts Stuff” is now available. Dan Barnhizer, Rachel Arnow-Richman, and I discuss the adventures of “Veronica” who speaks for the id of all office workers.
https://www.europesays.com/2189349/ Emails reveal DOGE canceled Maine’s newborn Social Security program #Contracts #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #JanetMills #LelandDudek #Maine #Musk #SocialSecurity #trump
EUROPE SAYS · Emails reveal DOGE canceled Maine’s newborn Social Security program - EUROPE SAYSBANGOR (BDN) -- Orders to cancel a program that electronically registered Maine newborns for Social Security came from Elon Musk’s Department of Government
University disciplines law professor for use of provocative language, including in an exam hypo. He sues, inter alia, for First Amendment violations. Trial court dismissed but 7th Circuit reinstates 1A and state law claims.
#law #contracts #teaching #EmploymentLaw #FirstAmendment #litigation
1. Company hires executive with generous severance package.
2. Executive quits after four years and claims entitlement to $5 million
3. Company refuses to pay based on possible breach of non-existent side agreements
4. Company loses
In today’s Reefer Brief, we have a great fact pattern involving conditions precedent and conditions of satisfaction, but the case is decided on the dull issue of illegality. Accursed Schedule I! Still, the case can be adapted for teaching.
New Top Tens! “The Form Knows Best” tops the lists after the Blog Bump, and Ethan Leib’s new article asks a question to which I hope the answer is “yes”! Contextualism > formalism!
Lawmakers Demand #Palantir Provide Information About U.S. #Contracts
Alex Karp, right, is the chief executive of Palantir, a data analysis and technology firm that has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since President #Trump took office in January.
#privacy #dataanalysis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/technology/palantir-government-contracts-democrats-letter.html
The New York Times · Lawmakers Demand Palantir Provide Information About U.S. Contracts
Court grants motion to compel arbitration brought by non-party to arbitration agreement two years after complaint was filed. I think the decision is correct under current law, which says a lot about the state of arbitration law in the U.S.
#law #contracts #litigation #arbitration
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/district-court-grants-motion-to-compel-arbitration-two-years-after-complain-was-filed.html
Students' claims against Colorado State University for going online in Spring 2020 dismissed. Students had a contract with CSU, but that contract incorporated a statutory power to close campus in emergencies.
Civil War starting in L.A.? World War III starting in Iran? How about some feel good Friday Frivolity celebrating the surprising usefulness of a memecoin, helping The Onion buy Infowars?
It brings me no pleasure to report that a Colorado court has found Twitter (X) liable for its refusal to pay rent on a property in Boulder. Just kidding. It brings me pleasure eight million times over.
A judge has approved a $2.75 billion settlement in a class action against the NCAA. Schools can now pay athletes $20.5 million/year directly and the $2.75 billion goes to former athletes. It’s just a rest stop on the highway to professionalization.
#law #contracts #sports #NCAA #litigation #settlements
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/the-short-term-future-of-college-athletics.html
It’s Tuesday, which means it is time for the new Top Tens! No changes at the top, as “The Form Knows Best” enjoys the Blog Bump from our post earlier this week.
The bad news is that the February bar exam was badly bundled in California. The good news is bar takers achieved the highest pass rate since 1965. Lesson learned bar takers. Future iterations of the bar exam will be modeled on Squid Game.
#law #contracts #BarExam #California #Litigation #Technology #Glitches
New post:
Client: What’s this alien vomit doing in my M&A Deal?
UVA Authors: Sorry, alien vomit is migratory.
Glenn West: No, that’s either what the client wanted because it worked in another deal or it was boilerplate that the lawyers tried to edit . . .
#law #contracts #M&A #Scholarship #academia #TransactionalLawyering #Drafting
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/what-a-form-knows.html