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Acknowledgments
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Enforcing Private Agreements
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Introduction
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Contract Law
A.Studying Contract Law
1. The Structure of This Book
2. The Three Dimensions of Law
3.The Restatement and the Uniform Commercial Code
4. How to Brief Cases for This Class
B.The Nature and History of Contract
Shaheen v. Knight
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Historical Background: From Status to Contract
Sir Henry Maine, Ancient Law
Historical Background: The Rise of Assumpsit
E. Allan Farnsworth, Contracts
C. The Boundaries of Contract
Jordan v. Knafel
Relational Background
Lawrence A. Cunningham, Contracts in the
Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts
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Damages for Breach
of Contract
A.Why Study Remedies First?
B.The Three Damage Interests
Legal Background: Introduction to Damage Interests
E. Allan Farnsworth, Expectation, Reliance,
and Restitution Interests
Hawkins v. McGee
McGee v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Relational Background: Before and After the Lawsuit
Jorie Roberts, Hawkins Case: A Hair-Raising
Experience
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Nurse v. Barns
Differentiating Damage Interests: A Problem
Sullivan v. O’Connor
J. O. Hooker & Sons v. Roberts Cabinet Co.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
KGM Harvesting Co. v. Fresh Network
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
C.Three Limitations on Damages
1. Remoteness or Foreseeability of Harm
Hadley v. Baxendale
Historical Background: Putting Hadley in Context
Richard Danzig, Hadley v. Baxendale: A Study in the
Industrialization of the Law
Hector Martinez and Co. v. Southern Pacific
Transportation Co.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Morrow v. First National Bank of Hot Springs
2. Certainty of Harm
Chicago Coliseum Club v. Dempsey
Relational and Historical Background: Why Didn’t
Dempsey Fight Wills? The Role of Race
Winston Cigarette Machine Co. v. Wells-Whitehead
Tobacco Co.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Anglia Television Ltd. v. Reed
Security Stove & Manufacturing Co. v. American
Railway Express Co.
Economics Background: The Subjectivity of Valuation
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
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3. Avoidability of Harm
Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.
Relational Background: Why Did the County Change
Its Mind? Why Did the Company Keep Building?
Barak Richman, Jordi Weinstock & Jason Mehta,
A Bridge, a Tax Revolt, and the Struggle to
Industrialize: The Story and Legacy of Rockingham
County v. Luten Bridge Co.
Shirley MacLaine Parker v. Twentieth
Century-Fox Film Corp.
Relational Background: A Feminist
Interpretation of Parker
Mary Joe Frug, Shirley MacLaine and the Mitigation
of Damages Rule: Re-Uniting Language and
Experience in Legal Doctrine
Relational Background: The Rise and Fall
of the Bloomer Girl Project
Victor P. Goldberg, Framing Contract Law:
An Economic Perspective
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Neri v. Retail Marine Corp.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
D.Contracting Around the Default Rules of Damages
1.Express Limitations on Consequential and Incidental
Damages
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Liquidated Damages vs. Penalty Clauses
Kemble v. Farren
Wassenaar v. Towne Hotel
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Lake River Corp. v. Carborundum Co.
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Causes of Action
A.Specific Performance and Injunctions
Legal Background: Introduction to
Equitable Remedies
Dan B. Dobbs, Introduction to Equity
and Equitable Remedies
1. Contracts for Land
Loveless v. Diehl
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2. Contracts for Goods
Cumbest v. Harris
Scholl v. Hartzell
Sedmak v. Charlie’s Chevrolet, Inc.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
3. Contracts for Personal Services
The Case of Mary Clark, A Woman of Colour
Relational Background: The Nature of Mary Clark’s
“Voluntary” Indenture
Sandra Boyd Williams, The Indiana Supreme
Court and the Struggle Against Slavery
Lumley v. Wagner
Relational Background: In the End Everyone
Except the Lawyers Were Losers
Stephen Waddams, Dimensions of Private Law
Ford v. Jermon
Duff v. Russell
Historical and Relational Background: Sex and
Specific Performance
Lea S. VanderVelde, The Gendered Origins of the
Lumley Doctrine: Binding Men’s Consciences
and Women’s Fidelity
Dallas Cowboys Football Club v. Harris
Constitutional Background: The Thirteenth
Amendment and Contractual Freedom
Bailey v. State of Alabama
B.Restitution — Damage Interest and Cause of Action
1. Restitution for Breach of Contract
Bush v. Canfield
Attorney General v. Blake
Snepp v. United States
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Restitution to the Party in Breach
Britton v. Turner
Vines v. Orchard Hills, Inc.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
3. Restitution and “Quasi-Contract”
Cotnam v. Wisdom
Martin v. Little, Brown and Co.
Al-Ibrahim v. Edde
Pelletier v. Johnson
C.Tortious Interference with Contract
Lumley v. Gye
Historical and Relational Background: The Impact of
Lumley v. Gye on Johanna Wagner
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of the Lumley Doctrine: Binding Men’s
Consciencses and Women’s Fidelity
Restatement (Second) of Torts
Texaco v. Pennzoil
Procedural Background: The Most Expensive Legal
Mistake in the History of the World
Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Oil and Honor:
The Texaco-Pennzoil Wars
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Mutual Assent
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Reaching
an
Agreement
A.The Objective Theory of Assent
Embry v. Hargadine, McKittrick Dry Goods Co.
The Objective Theory of Assent: A Problem
Lucy v. Zehmer
Relational Background: The Politics and
Economics of Lucy v. Zehmer
Barak Richman & Dennis Schmelzer,
When Money Grew on Trees: Lucy v. Zehmer
and Contracting in a Boom Market
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
B.What Is an Offer?
1. Preliminary Negotiations
Nebraska Seed Co. v. Harsh
Lefkowitz v. Great Minneapolis Surplus Store, Inc.
Leonard v. PepsiCo
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Written Memorial Contemplated
Empro Manufacturing Co. v. Ball-Co
Manufacturing, Inc.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Arnold Palmer Golf Co. v. Fuqua Industries, Inc.
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Memorandum of Intent for the Acquisition of 25%
of the Stock of Arnold Palmer Golf Company
in Exchange for Certain Assets of Fuqua
Industries, Inc.
Copeland v. Baskin Robbins U.S.A.
3. Revoking an Offer
Dickinson v. Dodds
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Legal Background: The Emergence of
“Firm Offers”
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
C.What Is an Acceptance?
1.Acceptance That Varies Terms — The Mirror
Image Rule
Ardente v. Horan
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2.Acceptance by Correspondence — The Mailbox Rule
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
3.Acceptance by Performance or “Unilateral” Contracts?
Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.
Relational Background: The Smoke Ball and
Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicine
A. W. B. Simpson, Quackery and Contract Law:
The Case of the Carbolic Smoke Ball
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
White v. Corlies & Tifft
Poetic Background: Llewellyn’s Verse
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Petterson v. Pattberg
Relational Background: Additional
Information About Petterson v. Pattberg
Samuel Blinkoff, Note
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
4. Acceptance by Silence
Hobbs v. Massasoit Whip Co.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
D.E-Commerce and Mutual Assent
Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble Inc.
Empirical Evidence on the Use of Online
Contracting
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Some Realities
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Discerning
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Agreement
A. Interpreting the Meaning of the Terms
1. Ambiguous Terms
Raffles v. Wichelhaus
Relational Background: What “to arrive
ex Peerless” Really Meant
Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract
A. W. B. Simpson, Contracts for Cotton to Arrive:
The Case of the Two Ships Peerless
Oswald v. Allen
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Vague Terms
Weinberg v. Edelstein
Frigaliment Importing Co. v. B.N.S. International
Sales Corp.
B.Filling Gaps in the Terms
1. Agreements to Agree
Sun Printing & Publishing Ass’n v. Remington
Paper & Power Co.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Illusory Promises
New York Central Iron Works Co. v. United States
Radiator Co.
Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Gulf Oil Corp.
Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
Biographical Background: Who Was Lucy,
Lady Duff-Gordon?
Meredith Etherington-Smith & Jeremy Pilcher,
The “It” Girls
Stephen Cox, Mysteries of the Titanic
Biographical and Relational Background:
Who Was Otis Wood and Why Did He
Omit a “Best Efforts” Clause?
Victor Goldberg, Framing Contract Law:
An Economic Perspective
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
C. Identifying the Terms of the Agreement
1. Form Contracts or “Contracts of Adhesion”
Carnival Cruise Lines v. Shute
Compagno v. Commodore Cruise Line, Ltd.
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Caspi v. Microsoft Network
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Which Terms Were Agreed To?
Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
Union Carbide Corp. v. Oscar Mayer Foods Corp.
3. Terms That Follow Later
ProCD v. Zeidenberg
Hill v. Gateway 2000
Klocek v. Gateway
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Written Manifestations
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Assent
A. Interpreting a Writing — The Parol Evidence Rule
Thompson v. Libbey
Masterson v. Sine
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Carter Baron Drilling v. Badger Oil Corp.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas
Drayage & Rigging Co.
Trident Center v. Connecticut General
Life Insurance Co.
Comparative Law Background: The Parol
Evidence Rule Under the United Nations
Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods
Daniel D. Barnhizer, CISG as an Alternative
System of Default Rules Governing
the Sale of Goods
B.Requiring a Writing — The Statute of Frauds
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
1. The Statute and Its Exceptions
Boone v. Coe
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
C.R. Klewin, Inc. v. Flagship Properties, Inc.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Riley v. Capital Airlines, Inc.
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Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Satisfying the Requirement of a Writing
Schwedes v. Romain
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Ethical Background: The Role of the Lawyer
in Schwedes
American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional
Conduct (2002)
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Multiparty Transactions
A.Transferring Rights or Duties to Third Parties
Legal Background: Introduction to Assignment
and Delegation
E. Allan Farnsworth, Contracts
1. Assignment of Contractual Rights
Kelly Health Care v. The Prudential
Insurance Co. of America
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
In re Nance
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Delegation of Contractual Duties
Sally Beauty Co. v. Nexxus Products Co.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
B.Third-Party Beneficiaries of a Contract
1. The Birth of the Third-Party Beneficiary Rule
Lawrence v. Fox
Relational Background
Anthony Jon Waters, The Property in the Promise:
A Study of the Third Party Beneficiary Rule
2. Intended Beneficiaries
Seaver v. Ransom
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
3.Distinguishing Intended from Incidental
Beneficiaries
Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, Health, and Hospital
Services v. Russell
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
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Enforceability
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Principles
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A.Six Core Principles of Enforceability
1. Party-Based Principles
2. Standards-Based Principles
3. Process Principles
4. Integrating the Core Principles of Enforceability
B.Applying the Principles of Enforceability to a Case
Michelle Marvin v. Lee Marvin
Frances Morone v. Frank Morone
Sari Posner v. Victor Posner
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A.The Historical Origins of the Doctrine
Historical Background: The Origins of the
Doctrine of Consideration
A. W. B. Simpson, The Doctrine of
Consideration — Introduction
B.The Bargain Theory of Consideration
Economics Background: Bargains and
the Division of Labor
Adam Smith, Lectures on Jurisprudence
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
1. Distinguishing Bargains from Gratuitous Promises
Johnson v. Otterbein University
Hamer v. Sidway
Relational Background: Other Dealings
Between Willie and His Uncle
Hamer v. Sidway (N.Y. Supreme Court)
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Kirksey v. Kirksey
Relational Background: “Dear Sister Antillico”
William R. Casto & Val D. Ricks, “Dear Sister
Antillico…”: The Story of Kirksey v. Kirksey
Dahl v. HEM Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Past Consideration
Moore v. Elmer
3. Moral Consideration
Mills v. Wyman
Relational Background: Levi Lives!
Geoffrey R. Watson, In the Tribunal of
Conscience: Mills v. Wyman Reconsidered
Boothe v. Fitzpatrick
Webb v. McGowin
Webb v. McGowin (Ala. Supreme Court)
Relational Background: Was a Promise Made?
Richard Danzig & Geoffrey R. Watson,
The Capability Problem in Contracts
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
C.Contract Modification and the Preexisting Duty Rule
Harris v. Watson
Stilk v. Myrick
Alaska Packers’ Ass’n v. Domenico
Relational Background: Were the Fishing
Nets Really Rotten?
Debora L. Threedy, A Fish Story: Alaska Packers’
Association v. Domenico
Brian Construction and Development Co.
v. Brighenti
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
United States v. Stump Home Specialties
Manufacturing
D.Adequacy of Consideration
Economics Background: Subjectivity and the
Inequality of Exchange
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Newman & Snell’s State Bank v. Hunter
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Dyer v. National By-Products, Inc.
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The Intention
Bound
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Comparative Law Background:
The English Law of Contract
Intention to Create Legal Relations
A.Using Formalities to Manifest an Intention
to Be Legally Bound
1. The Seal
Aller v. Aller
Statutory Background: New Jersey Changes Its Mind
Wagner v. Lectrox Corp.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Nominal Consideration
Schnell v. Nell
Statutory Background: Documents Under Seal
in Indiana
Lon L. Fuller, Basic Contract Law
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
3. Recitals
Smith v. Wheeler
Jolles v. Wittenberg
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
4. Written Expression of Intention to Be Legally Bound
Legislative Background: The Rationale
for the Uniform Written Obligations Act
Handbook of the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws &
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting
Thomas v. First National Bank of Scranton
Kay v. Kay
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Barness
First Federal Savings and Loan Ass’n of
Pittston v. Reggie
B. Lack of Intention to Be Legally Bound
Ferrera v. A. C. Nielsen
Evenson v. Colorado Farm Bureau Mutual
Insurance Co.
Eiland v. Wolf
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The Doctrine
Estoppel
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Promissory
Historical Background: Early Alternatives to the
Doctrine of Consideration
A. W. B. Simpson, The Doctrine of Consideration —
Introduction
A.The Development of Promissory Estoppel
as a Substitute for Consideration
1. Family Promises
Ricketts v. Scothorn
Historical Background: The Doctrine of Equitable
Estoppel
John Norton Pomeroy, Essential
Elements Constituting the Estoppel
Discussion of the Tentative Draft of Contracts,
Restatement No. 2
2. Promises to Convey Land
Greiner v. Greiner
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
3. Promises of a Pension
Feinberg v. Pfeiffer Co.
Pitts v. McGraw-Edison Co.
4. Construction Bids
James Baird Co. v. Gimbel Bros., Inc.
Relational Background: More About the “Mistake”
Lon L. Fuller, Basic Contract Law
Drennan v. Star Paving Co.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
5. Charitable Subscriptions
Allegheny College v. National Chautauqua
County Bank of Jamestown
B.Promissory Estoppel as an Alternative to Breach of Contract
Goodman v. Dicker
Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc.
Relational Background: What Was the Promise
in Red Owl Stores?
William C. Whitford & Stewart Macaulay,
Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores: The Rest of the Story
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Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Restatement (Second) of Torts (1977)
Doctrinal Background: The Tort of Promissory
Misrepresentation
Randy E. Barnett & Mary E. Becker, Beyond
Reliance: Promissory Estoppel, Contract
Formalities, and Misrepresentations
Theoretical Background: The Death of Contract?
Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract
E. Allan Farnsworth, Developments in Contract
Law During the 1980s: The Top Ten
Empirical Background: Promissory Estoppel
in the Nineties
Robert A. Hillman, Questioning the
“New Consensus” on Promissory Estoppel:
An Empirical and Theoretical Study
C.Establishing the “Elements” of Promissory Estoppel
1. Promise
Blatt v. University of Southern California
Spooner v. Reserve Life Insurance Co.
Ypsilanti v. General Motors
Ypsilanti v. General Motors (Mich. Appeals Court)
Relational Background: Settlement of the Case
James Bennet, G.M. Settles Suit over Plant Closing
2. Reasonable Reliance
Alden v. Vernon Presley
3. Injustice of Nonenforcement
Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. (Minn. Supreme Court)
Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. (U.S. Supreme Court)
Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. (Minn. Supreme Court)
Empirical Background:
The Elements of Promissory Estoppel
Robert A. Hillman, Questioning the
“New Consensus” on Promissory Estoppel:
An Empirical and Theoretical Study
Sidney W. DeLong, The New Requirement
of Enforcement Reliance in Commercial
Promissory Estoppel: Section 90 as Catch-22
D.A Hypothetical Alternative to Restatement §90
Restatement (Third) of Contracts
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A.The Implied Duty of Good Faith Performance
Goldberg 168-05 Corp. v. Levy
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v.
Tailored Woman
Stop & Shop, Inc. v. Ganem
Food Fair Stores, Inc. v. Blumberg
The Original Great American Chocolate Chip
Cookie Co. v. River Valley Cookies, Ltd.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
B. Implied and Express Warranties
1.Implied Warranties of Merchantability and
Fitness for a Particular Purpose
Vlases v. Montgomery Ward & Company
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Express Warranties
Royal Business Machines, Inc. v. Lorraine Corp.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
CBS, Inc. v. Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.
3. Express Disclaimers of Warranty
Schneider v. Miller
Pelc v. Simmons
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
Morris v. Mack’s Used Cars
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1. Is the Event a Condition, a Promise, or Both?
Howard v. Federal Crop Insurance Corp.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Is the Event a Condition, a Promise, or Neither?
Chirichella v. Erwin
C.Avoiding Conditions
1. Waiver and Estoppel
Clark v. West
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Excuse to Prevent Forfeiture
J.N.A. Realty Corp. v. Cross Bay Chelsea, Inc.
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A.Fault and Breach of Contract
Cohen v. Clark
B.Constructive Conditions
Kingston v. Preston
Morton v. Lamb
Jacob & Youngs v. Kent
Jacob & Youngs v. Kent (Motion for Reargument)
Relational Background:
Why All the Fuss About Reading Pipe?
Richard Danzig, The Capability
Problem in Contract Law
C.Prospective Nonperformance
1. Anticipatory Repudiation
Albert Hochster v. Edgar De La Tour
Harrell v. Sea Colony, Inc.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Adequate Assurances of Performance
Scott v. Crown
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
3. Material Breach
B & B Equipment Co. v. Bowen
Lane Enterprises, Inc. v. L. B. Foster Co.
Did Shawn Kemp Materially Breach? A Problem
4. The Perfect Tender Rule: Cure and Rescission
Ramirez v. Autosport
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The Expectation Interest Revisited
Groves v. John Wunder Co.
Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal Mining Co.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Relational and Legal Background: Is Peevyhouse
a Lesson in Lawyering or Corruption?
Judith L. Maute, Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal Co.
Revisited: The Ballad of Willie and Lucille
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Defenses to Contractual
Obligation
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Lack
of
Contractual Capacity
A.Introduction — Rebutting the Prima Facie
Case of Contract
Theoretical Background: Legal Rules
as Presumptions
Richard A. Epstein, Pleadings and Presumptions
B.Deficiencies in Contractual Capacity
1. Incompetence
Ortelere v. Teachers’ Retirement Board
of New York
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Infancy
Webster Street Partnership, Ltd. v. Sheridan
Halbman v. Lemke
Zelnick v. Adams
Historical Background: The Extension
of Childhood
Hillary Rodham, Children’s Rights:
A Legal Perspective
Brooke Shields v. Gross
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
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Assent Improperly Obtained
and Assent to Improper Terms
A.Misrepresentation
Halpert v. Rosenthal
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Byers v. Federal Land Co.
Vokes v. Arthur Murray, Inc.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
B.Duress
Hackley v. Headley
Austin Instrument v. Loral Corp.
United States v. Progressive Enterprises
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
C.Undue Influence
Odorizzi v. Bloomfield School District
Relational Background: Donald Odorizzi’s Story
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
D.Unconscionability
Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
In re RealNetworks
Discover Bank v. Superior Court
Gatton v. T-Mobile USA, Inc.
E.Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses in Form Contracts
AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion
Samaniego v. Empire Today, LLC
Commercial Background: Contracting Around
Government Courts and State-Created
Contract Law
Lisa Bernstein, Opting Out of the Legal System:
Extralegal Contractual Relations in the
Diamond Industry
F.Public Policy
Hanford v. Connecticut Fair Ass’n, Inc.
A.Z. v. B.Z.
Legal Background: Freedom of Contract
Printing and Numerical Registering Co. v. Sampson
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
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of a
Basic Assumption
A.Mistakes of Present Existing Facts
1. Mutual Mistake
Sherwood v. Walker
Nester v. Michigan Land & Iron Co.
Wood v. Boynton
Lenawee County Board of Health v. Messerly
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
2. Unilateral Mistake and the Duty to Disclose
Tyra v. Cheney
Drennan v. Star Paving Co.
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Laidlaw v. Organ
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
The Baseball Card Case: A Problem
3. Mistake and “Smart Contracts”
B2C2 Ltd v. Quoine Pte Ltd
UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, Legal Statement
on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts
B.Changed Circumstances
1. Impossibility and Impracticability
Paradine v. Jane
Historical Background: The “Alien” Prince Rupert
Historical Background: One View of How and Why
Paradine v. Jane Became a Leading Case
Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract
Taylor v. Caldwell
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
CNA & American Casualty v. Arlyn Phoenix
Transatlantic Financing Corp. v. United States
Sales Contracts: The Uniform Commercial Code
2. Frustration of Purposes
Krell v. Henry
Historical Background: The Ailing King
E. Allan Farnsworth & William F. Young, Contracts
Legal Background: Should the Loss “Lie Where It Fell”?
Lloyd v. Murphy
Restatement (Second) of Contracts
C.Allocation of Risk in Long-Term Contracts
Aluminum Company of America v. Essex Group, Inc.
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Procedural Background: The Aftermath
of the ALCOA Decision
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. v. Carbon
County Coal Co.
Empirical Background: Survey of Corporate Counsel
Russell J. Weintraub, A Survey of Contract
Practice and Policy
Table of Judges
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index
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