Friday Frivolity: Nice v. Fun Markets; Clean Sports v. Dope Sports

I recently came across Elena Baylis’s summary of the Ninth Circuit’s decision from January 2024 in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in International Legal Materials. As Professor Baylis notes, the case turns on a choice of forum analysis, but there… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Periodically, we check in on the progress of various claims arising out of the COVID epidemic. One line of cases involves university students suing their schools for closing campuses in the Spring of 2020 and offering only partial reimbursements of… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

I learned recently via Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me about a new trend. As Sadiba Hasan reports in The New York Times, weddings have gotten so expensive that people are asking their guests to pay to attend. Ms. Hasan’s reporting… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Citibank has been in the news a couple of times in the past few years because its complex protocols and lack of software safeguards have led to costly mistakes. We had a lot of fun with $900 million of misdirected… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Peter and Sut Fong, two brothers, opened a safe deposit box at a U.S. Bancorp (the Bank) branch in Sacramento in 2000. In 2021, for unknown reasons, the Bank drilled into the Fongs’ safe deposit box to discover its contents…. Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Earlier this month, we wrote of a lowly multi-millionaire who uses non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in connection his longevity business, which involves experimentation with drugs, and his personal life, which involves experimentation with drugs. Also this month, Dana Mattioli reported in… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More