Over 30 years ago, Jerry Seinfeld (played by Jerry Seinfeld) accidentally agreed to wear a puffy shirt on the Today Show by nodding at low-talker. But only now did I realize what fun contracts hypo it is.

#law #contracts #Seinfeld #television #teaching

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/friday-frivolity-a-contract-to-wear-a-puffy-shirt.html

Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS

Venture Global seeks authorization for Calcasieu Pass, TransCameron Projects: OGEL Energy Law Journal Specials on Liquefied Natural #Gas #LNG - free excerpts
https://www.ogel.org/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=73 and https://www.ogel.org/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=86
#LiquefiedNaturalGas #Markets #Contracts https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venture-global-seeks-authorization-calcasieu-pass-transcameron-projects-2025-03-25/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Very excited to have a guest post today from SMU Dedman School of Law’s Gregory Crespi, reviewing Daryl Levinson and David Pozen’s "Disconsents," available for download on SSRN!

#law #contracts #scholarship #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/gregory-crespi-thinking-about-consent.html

Class action brought by textbook authors against McGraw Hill provides insights into the challenges of publishing in the digital age. Some breach of contract claims proceed as publishers push costs onto authors in the form of reduced royalty payments

#law #contracts #publishing #ebooks
#litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/second-circuit-revives-some-class-claims-by-textbook-authors-against-mcgraw-hill.html

Since #TRUMP has taken 'power'
#America has lost hundreds of thousands of Billions
in #International #contracts, #bonds, #Investments
(and they will not return until Trump is president, some will never come back)
This means that #America will not be able to amortize Her #public #debt.
Trump 'economy' raced the #USA to >bankruptcy.
The only thing Trump can do
to avoid being >lynched< by the 'We the people'
It is to give the #Americans an even more serious existential problem
> War
... get ready.

Another doing it wrong vs. doing it right. Last time, it was Paul, Weiss v. junior associates loud-quitting. Now, it's Columbia University v. Georgetown Law. Even Columbia’s Alma Mater is asking, “What Gives?”

#law #contracts #GovernmentContracting #ColumbiaUniversity #GeorgetownLaw

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/doing-it-wrong-columbia-and-doing-it-right-georgetown.html

New Top Tens are out! Crypto & Property is all the rage, but I have also heard great things about #4 on the chart, Daryl Levinson and David Pozen’s “Disconsents.”

#law #Contracts #academia #scholarsihp

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-march-25-2025.html

https://www.europesays.com/1942777/ NASA Slashes $420 Million in Contracts Amid DOGE’s Broad Cost-Cutting Measures #Contracts #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #FederalGovernment #Musk #nasa

Court denies motion to compel arbitration by the executive of modeling agency accused of trying to sex traffic a young model, in part because she was a minor when she signed the agreement with the arbitration clause.

#law #contracts #arbitration #trafficking #litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/california-appellate-court-upholds-denial-of-motion-to-compel-arbitration-in-sex-trafficking-claim-a.html

Today, I review the final chapter of Larry DiMatteo’s Principles of Contract Law and Theory, which is about law in action and then returns to some of the book’s major themes. Next week, I will wrap up my commentary on the book.

#law #contracts #books #scholarship #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/reviewing-larry-dimatteo-principles-of-contract-law-and-theory-part-xv.html

#TRUMP says that his '#administration' & #Musk
Cut 'cost' ... save money ...

If the #MAGAs realized the ENORMITY
of money and investments that Trump has burned
in the short time that he 'took power' !
they would realize that
The 'genious' 'The' Great Business Man '
If he 'saved' '$1' million (by cutting the Social economic support )
Trump lost> burned <$ 100,000,000,000
In #Investments and #International #Contracts
(not to mention the stock exchange)
And they are NOT caming back to US.

It’s been a rough week. We could all use a little contracts-adjacent frivolity. Today, we bring you the continuing sage of one man’s attempt to recover $800 million in bitcoin from a Welsh garbage dump.

#law #contracts #Bitcoin #Wales

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/friday-frivolity-8000-bitcoins-in-a-welsh-tip-garbage-dump.html

German minister warns Nord Stream pipeline revival would be 'wrong direction': OGEL Journal Special Issue on Natural Gas Pipeline Construction and Regulation - free excerpt
https://www.ogel.org/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=83
#Pipelines #Energy #Law #Contracts #Financing #Operation #NaturalGas #Gas #LNG #Policy #Legal #Economics #Export #Infrastructure #EnergyTransition https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/german-minister-warns-nord-stream-pipeline-revival-would-be-wrong-direction-2025-03-17/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Got a contract that explicitly states a £1 consideration, I assume that unless that payment is actually made then it isn't valid.

This is an additional contract to which work has been done under (and paid for), so this needs to be an explicit extra £1?

This was a very good decision of our #EU when #America wasn’t included in the #European defence. We must build our strategic autonomy. We must support our domestic demand and domestic war industry. That’s the new world. #Europe must be strong. The EU has bought from EU. #ViveLaEurope!

The Supreme Court of PA is hearing an appeal of a case invalidating Uber’s terms of service. Brett Frischmann has filed an amicus brief in support of the appellees, calling for meaningful informed consent to digital contracts.

#law #contracts #arbitration #litigation #Jury #Uber #TermsOfService

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/brett-frischman-amicus-brief-in-chilutti-v-uber.html

#Musk Is Firing #FederalWorkers Who Prevent Bloated #Tech #Contracts
Employees at the federal tech unit #18F say that their role in preventing overspending put a Musk-sized target on their back. https://theintercept.com/2025/03/19/18f-tech-federal-workers-musk-trump-doge/

Back in October, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a District Court determination that Live Nation’s batch arbitration scheme is unconscionable. Is it ever! The opinion is scathing but also legally bold.

#law #contracts #arbitration #LiveNation #MassArbitration #BatchArbitration

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/big-mass-arbitration-decision-from-the-ninth-circuit.html