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In today’s Reefer Brief, a web optimization deal did not go well. Much of the opinion was taken up with whether the amount in controversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction was satisfied. Breach of contract seems clear.
As reported by @kirstengrind.bsky.social in @nytimes.com, Bryan Johnson’s long-life start-up Blueprint and his “Don’t Die” religion are protected through non-disclosure agreements. Freud had a joke for this situation.
Bill Murray’s interview in the NY Times did not make me like Bill Murray but I like this quote: “[I]f anyone ever suggests you go to arbitration: Don’t do it. Never ever do it. Because you think it’s justice, and it isn’t.”
#law #contracts #arbitration #BillMurray
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/magazine/bill-murray-interview.html
With my retirement savings in the crapper, I may have to work until I’m 80, but at least I’ll still have #Severance to watch when I come home. This is especially valuable because the series helps me think about consent.
Importance Score: 45 / 100
A UK division of the Indian conglomerate Tata “deliberately orchestrated” a redundancy programme in a way that unfairly targeted older, non-India...
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News FlashTata consultancy firm in UK targeted older, non-Indian nationals, tribunal hears
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FDA promulgated a click-to-cancel regulation. I doubt much will come of that for a while, but New York is enforcing its version of the law against Sirium XM, which requires that users listen to a sales pitch from a live agent before quitting.
I am blessed with clients who are a joy to work with. That wasn't always true. Here's how I learned to attract great consulting clients.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/consulting-2/2022/08/attract-great-consulting-clients
Relying on recent SCOTUS precedent, 10th Circuit upholds ruling that a baked-goods distributor works in interstate commerce and is thus exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act and that allowing for state arbitration would be “inconsistent” with that act. Zounds.
New Top Tens today and we have a new leader!
Psych!
April Fools!
It’s still @andreatosato.bsky.social & @chrisodinet.bsky.social with over 4000 downloads, and other stuff about new technology is massing near the top.
"The Tr*mp administration said on Monday that it was reviewing roughly $9 billion in #federal #grants and #contracts awarded to #Harvard, claiming that the #university had allowed antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus." https://tinyurl.com/5fwxu6x7
The New York Times · Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard
We are proud to report that the ContractsProf Blog is still ranked #1 among contracts blogs. If you are getting your contracts news from some other blog, you might consider switching.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/were-1-and-14.html
Over 30 years ago, Jerry Seinfeld (played by Jerry Seinfeld) accidentally agreed to wear a puffy shirt on the Today Show by nodding at low-talker. But only now did I realize what fun contracts hypo it is.
Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS
Venture Global seeks authorization for Calcasieu Pass, TransCameron Projects: 
OGEL Energy Law Journal Specials on Liquefied Natural #Gas #LNG - free excerpts
https://www.ogel.org/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=73 and https://www.ogel.org/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=86
#LiquefiedNaturalGas #Markets #Contracts https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venture-global-seeks-authorization-calcasieu-pass-transcameron-projects-2025-03-25/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
OGEL Energy Law JournalOGEL 4 (2017) - Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) |
OGEL JournalInternational LNG markets are set for major change, with substantial new liquefaction capacity coming on stream in the period to 2020 and this issue aims precis
Very excited to have a guest post today from SMU Dedman School of Law’s Gregory Crespi, reviewing Daryl Levinson and David Pozen’s "Disconsents," available for download on SSRN!
Class action brought by textbook authors against McGraw Hill provides insights into the challenges of publishing in the digital age. Some breach of contract claims proceed as publishers push costs onto authors in the form of reduced royalty payments
Since #TRUMP has taken 'power'
#America has lost hundreds of thousands of Billions
in #International #contracts, #bonds, #Investments
(and they will not return until Trump is president, some will never come back)
This means that #America will not be able to amortize Her #public #debt.
Trump 'economy' raced the #USA to >bankruptcy.
The only thing Trump can do
to avoid being >lynched< by the 'We the people'
It is to give the #Americans an even more serious existential problem
> War
... get ready.
Another doing it wrong vs. doing it right. Last time, it was Paul, Weiss v. junior associates loud-quitting. Now, it's Columbia University v. Georgetown Law. Even Columbia’s Alma Mater is asking, “What Gives?”
#law #contracts #GovernmentContracting #ColumbiaUniversity #GeorgetownLaw
New Top Tens are out! Crypto & Property is all the rage, but I have also heard great things about #4 on the chart, Daryl Levinson and David Pozen’s “Disconsents.”
