Holiday Weekend Wrap-Up

Stories on ContractsProf you may have missed over the holiday weekend:

A former assistant to the late Marlon Brando is suing the estate for breach of contract and sexual harassment.

Can finance lessors be liable on the same grounds used to get at lenders? A New York law firm thinks so.

A Holiday Greeting with all the boilerplate.

An insurer can rely on notice provision in claims-made policy as an absolute condition precedent even absent prejudice.

A gambler who won an $8 million jury verdict against a casino sees it go up in smoke.

Even a late-arriving precedent from the state supreme court that’s right on point can’t help Yale in an employment dispute.

Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband sues after being fired from his job managing her restaurant.

The UK’s Law Week takes a look at recent developments in British damages rules.

A California court teaches a cautionary lesson for lawyers representing closely held corporations.

An employer is bitten by its own employee noncompete clause.

Are damages available for breach of a forum selection clause? It’s more complicated than it seems.