Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for August 26, 2025

Wrigley Field, with Rooftop Seating in foreground, By Sea Cow – CC BY-SA 4.0, It’s April, and so I’m still following my team-since-birth, the Chicago Cubs. Most years, the season is effectively over by June, and then I just follow… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

In December 2021, Entertainment Studio Networks (ESN) and other entities owned and controlled by Byron Allen, a Black entrepreneur, brought suit against McDonald’s. ESN, which operates seven television networks, alleged that, although it reached out to McDonald’s’ advertising agency, OMD… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

NY Attorney General Letitia James According to Andy Newman, writing last February in The New York Times, in the earlier years of Doordash, the company encouraged customers to tip and assured them, “Dashers will always receive 100 percent of the… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

We are fortunate to be able to share another guest post by Gregory Crespi (right), who holds the Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professorship in Commercial and Insurance Law and Professor of Law at SMU’s Dedman School of Law. Here’s the… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Pablo Espin, on behalf of a class of service members, brought suit against Citibank. In short, the service members accrued large balances on their Citibank credit cards while in the military. The statutory schemes required Citibank to charge low rates… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Matilda Battersby, writing in The Bookseller reports on a new “disrupter” in the book publishing industry. The start-up, called Spines, began in 2021 and it published its first books this year. It published 273 titles in September alone, including 33… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More