With an assist from @lawdorknews.bsky.social, I have updated my post from Wednesday about challenges to Russel Vought’s attempt to dismiss up to 90% of the CFPB’s employees. D.C. Circuit upholds the District Court’s stay on the action, with former White House counsel during Trump 1.0 joining the majority.

#law #contracts #CFPB #litigation #injunctions #DCCircuit

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/recap-of-administration-attempt-to-fire-employees-of-the-consumer-finance-protection-bureau.html

Still catching up on the Money Stuff Podcast. The hosts’ rumination on nice markets v. fun markets and clean sports v. dope sports triggers today’s Friday Frivolity about Lance Armstrong and the Scylla/Charybdis or evading detection and catastrophe.

#law #contracts #markets #blockchain #crypto #Cycling #Doping #LanceArmstrong

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/05/friday-frivolity-nice-v-fun-markets-fair-sports-v-dope-sports.html

It was a competitive field this year, but the new Cardozo Cup winner has been selected. The winning entry is a machine that corrects you if, when asked if you should listen to Judge Cardozo, give the wrong answer.

#law #contracts #teaching #contest

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/05/cardozo-cup-entries-and-2025-winner.html

What better way to celebrate May Day than with an account of the National Treasury Employee Union’s victory, enjoining the Administration from terminating collective bargaining rights for 2/3 of the federal work force? The order came out on Friday, the opinion on Monday.

#Law #contracts #unions #labor #GovernmentWorkers #litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/05/may-day-federal-judge-backs-federal-workers-union-and-enjoins-executive-order.html

OCU Law Student J Badillo (below, left) has completed his one-year reign as the winner of the Cardozo Cup Competition for the best original work of art commemorating the jurisprudence of Benjamin Cardozo. He bore the title with honor.

#law #contracts #teaching #Cardozo

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/the-adventures-of-the-cardozo-cup-in-its-third-year.html

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has survived the first 100 days of the new Administration’s term with the help of Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who sees the latest RIF (correctly) as an attempt to prevent the CFPB from performing its statutorily-mandated functions

#law #contracts #CFPB #litigation #GovernmentEmployees #Injunctions

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/recap-of-administration-attempt-to-fire-employees-of-the-consumer-finance-protection-bureau.html

In today’s Reefer Brief, a lesson in what happens if you don’t get crop insurance. Insurer covered physical damage to marijuana cultivator from a fire, but not the 1000 lost plants.

#law #contracts #cannabis #litigation #insurance

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/reefer-brief-insurer-wins-summary-judgment-v-marijuana-cultivator.html

Perhaps I am the last to discover the Money Stuff podcast with @matt-levine.bsky.social and @kgreifeld.bsky.social, but discover it I have, and it will inform many future posts. This one is about the first episode, DXYZ, and MNGO

#law #contracts #podcasts #markets #manipulation #crypto #defi

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/belatedly-introducing-the-money-stuff-podcast-with-matt-levine-and-katie-greifeld.html

Today’s post reviews Douglas Hodgkin’s account of his family's litigious history, made famous by Brackenbury v. Hodgkin, in which a court ordered a cantankerous mother to continue living with her daughter and son-in-law.

#law #contracts #Books #Teaching

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/teaching-assistants-douglas-i-hodgkins-fractured-family.html

Today’s post builds on @danamattioli.bsky.social's reporting for @wsj.com with a focus on the role of non-disclosure agreements in Elon Musk’s version of the dating game, which is designed to have his offspring reach “legion levels.”

#law #contracts #Musk #NDAs #Influencer #Reproduction

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/the-billionaires-weapon-of-choice-in-getting-to-legion-level-the-non-disclosure-agreement.html

Easy win for the CFPB over a man who ran a scammy credit-repair business. But nothing is easy these days for the administrative state. Given Jarkesy, is defendant entitled to a jury trial after the CFPB won a default judgment against his business entity?

#law #contracts #CFPB #Fraud #Agencies #Regulation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/the-work-of-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-and-the-fallout-from-jarkesy.html

Thanks to my student Brady Robison who alerted me to a suit brought by influencers against Honey, an extension that PayPal bought for $4 billion so that it can better track you and data mine you. They allege that it also steals commissions from them.

#law #contracts #Honey #Influencers #coupons #litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/influencers-allege-paypal-uses-honey-extension-to-steal-commissions.html

The Chicago Cubs enjoyed a pre-season win. It was in a court rather than on the field, but it’s the Cubs, so we’ll take the W. They are tangling with one of the owners of a rooftop-seating business. All others renewed the licensing agreement.

#law #contracts #Litigation #Cubs

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/friday-frivolity-cubs-preseason-gets-off-to-a-solid-start-with-a-court-win.html

Quick update on Flo Rida’s $82 million judgment against Celsius. The trial court erred as to the date on which the stock price was to be calculated, so the Rap artist will get a bit of a haircut, his first in a while, one suspects.

#law #contracts #Endorsements #EnergyDrinks #Rap

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/appellate-court-remands-flo-ridas-case-against-celsius-for-a-recalculation-of-damages.html

Foley & Lardner withdrew an offer from a woman based on her pro-Palestinian activities at Georgetown and in Chicago. She alleged promissory estoppel based on assurances that the firm would allow her to be “her authentic self” as a Muslim Arab woman.

#law #contracts #LawFirms #BigLaw #EmploymentLaw #Palestine

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/law-student-sues-over-withdrawn-offer-from-law-firm.html

For some reason, there is a line of cases about the duty of good faith under UCC § 2-305 involving the prices gas stations pay their suppliers. Today we report on a new that explains the good faith safe harbor nicely.

#law #contracts #UCC #litigation #GoodFaith

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/another-good-faith-claim-involving-prices-charged-to-gas-stations.html

Byron Allen’s claims against McDonald’s for discrimination against Black-owned networks in its placement of advertising survives a motion for summary judgment, just barely alleging a claim and just barely overcoming McDonald’s attempts to justify its ad strategies.

#law #contracts #litigation #discrimination #McDonalds

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/discrimination-in-advertising-claims-against-mcdonalds-will-proceed-to-trial.html

Will there ever be a great movie about breach of contract that also gives viewers a real sense of what contracts litigation is all about? Perhaps. The Burial is a diverting movie, but it is hard for a contracts prof to watch.

#law #contracts #film

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/friday-frivolity-law-order-breach-of-contract-edition.html

NY’s Court of Appeals sends a claim subject to a default judgment to arbitration because, although Uber failed to answer the complaint, it did update its terms of service and provided that its arbitration clause applies to pending claims.

#law #contracts #TermsOfService #Arbitration #Litigation #Uber

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/ny-court-of-appeals-sends-claims-of-injured-uber-user-to-arbitration.html