A few years back, I started following Matt Levine (left) and his Money Stuff column on Bloomberg. His columns inspired posts such as this one about a costly but understandable error at Citibank and this one about a preposterous money… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More
Similar Posts
First Circuit Upholds Non-Compete Agreement Under Massachusetts Law
Michael Hermalyn was employed until 2024 with DraftKings, a sports betting and online gambling company headquartered in Massachusetts. He left to join a rival company, Fanatics, which is based in California. However, his contract with DraftKings included a non-compete clause…. Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More
SCOTUS Grants Cert. in Oklahoma Religious Charter Schools Case
We posted last year about Oklahoma’s scheme to allow for taxpayer-funded religious charter schools. The test case is St. Isidore, which describes itself as an instrument of the Catholic Church committed to the Church’s evangelizing mission. It was created as… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More
Taboo Trades on Gestational Surrogacy and “Exploitation Creep”
We have posed on gestational surrogacy repeatedly on this blog, most recently here. I have been vaguely aware that several European states ban the practice, which seemed surprising to me. Kim Krawiec (right), Charles O. Gregory Professor of Law, University… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More
At Last, A Female Athlete Cashes in on the NIL Market
The New York Times’ The Athletic has a feature called MoneyCall, and the lead story in Dan Shanoff’s most recent column is about college sports, because that is where the money is these days. In this case, the column is… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More
Character, and the Rest of the Story, with Sid DeLong
“But That’s Not Who I Am”: Character as a Legal Construct and the Case of Paul Converse Sidney W. DeLong When contemporary scoundrels are nailed for serious misdeeds, and soon after their initial denials are conclusively disproven, they commonly whine,… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More
Law Suits over Mismanaged Administration of the California Bar Exam
Standardized Testing, Old School Both recent law graduates and the California Bar (the Bar) have sued ProctorU, d/b/a Meazure Learning (Meazure), in connection with California’s bar exam administered in February 2025. While past iterations of the bar exam were held… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More