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!
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
https://www.europesays.com/2147611/ Indigenous employment rules dropped from two-thirds of Commonwealth contracts #business #commonwealth #Contracts #employment #Indigenous #jobs #Procurement
https://www.europesays.com/2142685/ Trump says ex-pal Elon Musk can keep his golden White House key #Branch #Contracts #Department #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #Donald #DonaldTrump #efficiency #elon #ElonMusk #Executive #ExecutiveBranch #Government #GovernmentContracts #motors #Musk #Negative #of #Overall #OverallNegative #party #Politics #Republican #RepublicanParty #SpaceX #tesla #TeslaMotors #TheWhiteHouse #trump #TrumpAdministration
#DOGE used flawed #AI tool to “munch” #VeteransAffairs #contracts
As the #Trump admin prepared to cancel contracts at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or gov experience to guide them.
The engineer, working for the Dept of Government Efficiency, quickly built an #ArtificialIntelligence tool to identify which services from private companies were not essential. He labeled those contracts “MUNCHABLE.”
The Restatement of Consumer Contracts is now a toddler, and it is time for some scholarly reflection. @hoffprof.bsky.social gets us started by asking what we mean by a consumer’s “reasonable expectations”
#contracts #law #scholarship #academia #ConsumerProtection #GenerativeAI
Having previously entered into settlements with Washington, D.C. and Illinois, Doordash has now agreed in a settlement with NY AG Letitia James to distribute $16.8 million to its New York State employees whose tips it stole. It’s a start. Still, I wish I used Doordash so I could stop using Doordash.
#law #contracts #Settlements #Regulation
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/new-yorks-attorney-general-forces-doordash-to-pay-workers-for-stolen-tips.html
Bank enters into deal with jails that detainees’ money upon arrest plus any outside funds received go onto a debit card. Upon release, the detainee gets the card, which comes with fees. Court certified class action for violations of state and federal law.
#law #contracts #DebitCards #Incarceration #litigation #ClassActions
New Top Tens dropped yesterday. "A Theory of Complexity Aversion" and "The Form Knows Best" top the charts. Post on the latter coming Monday.
# law #contracts #scholarship #academia
A home where Pope Leo XIV lived as a child went up for sale, then there was to be an auction, and now the Village of Dolton, Illinois is seeking to purchase it. I haven’t seen this much excitement since George Costanza bought Jon Voight’s car.
