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KProfsBlog, 1 month ago to Law

Two teachers are suing the Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools for breach of contract after he demanded that they repay their $50,000 signing bonuses. He claimed that they lied on their applications, so they added a count for defamation. Law suit might go better for the Superintendent if his entire legal team had not quit.

#law #contracts #government #Oklahoma #RyanWalters #Defamation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/05/teachers-bring-breach-of-contract-suit-against-the-oklahoma-department-of-education.html

KProfsBlog, 1 month ago to Law

Two bits of VERY EXCITING news! First, Nancy Kim is back to posting on the blog (see her below)!! Second, SCOTUS holds in Bissonnette that transportation workers do not have to work for the transportation industry to be exempt under FAA § 1.

#law #contracts #arbitration #SCOTUS #FAA

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/04/nancy-kim-on-scotus-the-federal-arbitration-act-and-wonder-bread.html

KProfsBlog, 2 months ago to Law

University of Oklahoma Law School is seeking a visitor for Spring 2025 in commercial law. Imagine being able to work at a (nearly) top-50 law school while living only a short drive from Oklahoma City!

#law #teaching #hiring #CommercialLaw

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/04/contracts-adjacent-news-university-of-oklahoma-position-in-commercial-law.html

KProfsBlog, 2 months ago to Law

Thanks to my student Lino Sengkhamvilay (below) for today's story about how the citizens of Norman, OK rejected a 25-year deal with the local power company, leaving the city and utility w/out an operating agreement.

#law #contracts #utilities #monopolies #voti

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/04/implied-contracts-and-good-faith-in-norman-oklahoma.html

KProfsBlog, 4 months ago to Law

Deadline for submissions to KCON XVII, at which we will honor @MindyWishart , is this week! Get in your submission and then book your flight to Bristol, UK!

#law #contracts #conference #scholarship #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/02/the-deadline-for-submissions-for-kcon-xvii-approaches.html

KProfsBlog, 4 months ago to Law

Exciting news! OCU Law is hiring. We are looking for a tenured or tenure-track professor to lead our new Tribal Sovereignty Institute. I am the Chair of the Appointments Committee, so do not hesitate to reach out if you have interest or recommendations!

#law #hiring #academia #scholarship #teaching #NativeAmerican

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/02/ocu-law-seeks-executive-director-of-the-tribal-sovereignty-institute-and-professor-of-law.html

KProfsBlog, 4 months ago to Law

Bitcoin mining company falls behind on rent and utility bills. Landlord transfers electricity account to itself and cuts off power. Bitcoin mining company cries constructive eviction and seeks a positive injunction. Courts are not sympathetic.

#law #contracts #LandlordTenant #Bitcoin

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/01/constructive-eviction-by-cutting-off-power-to-a-bitcoin-mining-company.html

KProfsBlog, 7 months ago to Israel

My college roommate is now the President of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva. He showed extraordinary leadership standing up to the Netanyahu government, and now he is mourning the dead while protecting Arab students from backlash.

#Israel #gaza #BenGurionUniversity
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/world/asia/ben-gurion-university-israel-attack.html

KProfsBlog, 8 months ago to Law

In new scholarship on COVID cases, Kim Yuracko and Max Schanzenbach do what courts don't do. How can courts determine whether there's a breach without thinking about the nature of the K between universities and students?

#law #scholarship #litigation #COVID #HigherEducation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/10/teaching-assistants-covid-and-the-legal-relationship-between-students-and-their-universities.html

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KProfsBlog, 8 months ago to Law

The Writers' Strike is over! Long live the SAG-AFTA strike! We catch up with labor contracts news on the blog today. Mostly, we note that striking actors have more time to like contracts professors' social media posts.

#contracts #law #LaborLaw #StrikesLabor
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/the-sag-aftra-strike.html

KProfsBlog, 8 months ago to Law

An updated version of the Hairy Hand case: what if you got a "temporary tattoo" that two years later looks like a faded, 20-year-old prison tattoo?

#law #contracts #tattoos

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/ephemeral-tattoos-wont-go-away.html

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KProfsBlog, 8 months ago to Law

Coinbase users had their accounts hacked and they tried to sue. Coinbase moved to compel arbitration and, for the usual reasons, the court granted the motion

#law #contracts #arbitration #litigation #cryptocurrencies

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/coinbase-users-complaints-about-hacked-accounts-sent-to-arbitration.html

KProfsBlog, 9 months ago to Law

Suits brought by students alleging that universities breached contracts or were unjustly unriched when they went online in Spring 2020 are working their way through the courts. In Miami, another one bites the dust.

#law #contracts #litigation #COVID

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/eleventh-circuit-affirms-dismissal-of-covid-claims-against-the-university-of-miami.html

KProfsBlog, 9 months ago to Law

Marquette Law School is hiring.

#law #teaching #hiring #academia

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/09/hiring-at-marquette-law-school.html

KProfsBlog, 9 months ago to Law

Pennsylvania court refuses to enforce Uber's browsewrap arbitration provision because (get this!) it strips users of their right to a jury trial without adequate notice. I love it!

#law #courts #arbitration #uber

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/pennsylvania-court-finds-riders-not-bound-by-ubers-browsewrap-arbitration-agreement.html

KProfsBlog, 10 months ago to Law

Justice Sotomayor's alleged use of Court staff to promote her book tours raises additional concerns regarding the need for an ethics code for SCOTUS. Don't publishers have staff that can arrange readings for high-profile authors?
#law #contracts #SCOTUS #ethics

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/book-contracts-and-supreme-court-ethics.html

KProfsBlog, 10 months ago to Law

What do Samford, Villanova, Belmont, Mississippi College, Cal Western, and Lincoln Memorial have in common? All are hiring in contracts or contracts-related fields!

#law #contracts #teaching #hiring

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/08/law-schools-seek-contracts-profs.html

KProfsBlog, 11 months ago to legal

The passengers on the OceanGate submersible signed an exculpatory agreement that disclosed the very risks that killed them. Can their families nonetheless sue? Does it matter? It is not clear that the entity will survive this catastrophe, nor does it seem likely that the victims' survivors will be in need a cash. It is, however, an opportunity to consider the public policy behind such exculpatory agreements.

#law #contracts #OceanGate #Waivers
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2023/06/the-oceangate-liability-waiver.html