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Category Archives: Contract Law

Your Company Stinks, and I Own Half of It

Thursday, July 22, 2010

First, from MSNBC.com, comic relief: Facebook hated as much as airlines, cable companies Customer satisfaction poll puts Facebook in the bottom 5 percent of businesses Facebook, the most visited site on the Internet , may also be the most despised: A new poll says the site scored 64 on a 100-point scale, which “puts Facebook in [...]

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Changed Contractual Expectations

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Say you purchase a brand-new $3 million house adjacent to a golf course in a luxury country-club development.  The developer requires all house purchasers to buy country club memberships for $175,000. You comply, relying on a clause of the club membership agreement that obligates the club to reimburse the membership acquisition fee in full, in [...]

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The Wachovia Tug of War

Monday, October 6, 2008

Discussing the claim of tortious interference with contract recently in class I noted the difficulty plaintiffs face in persuading a court that a defendant’s conduct crossed the line between tough but legitimate competition and unlawful interference.  I used to spend time on it in class–when I taught at Babson I employed Pennzoil v Texaco as [...]

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Plaintiff: I gambled and lost

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

In its chapter on contract legality the textbook we use in the business law class discusses the case of Soheil Sadri. Sadri went to Las Vegas, gambled, lost, and gave the casino a check for $22,000 to cover what he owed. He then returned to California, stopped payment on the check, and was sued for [...]

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