Top Ten Posts of 2024!

I won’t be doing much posting until new Spring Semester begins, so it’s time to look back on a year of posts and recall some of the best contracts law stories of the year. This list is highly subjective of course. Some things are on this list because they are quirky incidents. Sometimes they are on the list because they are important contracts news stories or cases.

For those of you who like lists, here’s the top ten from 2023.

And here’s this year’s list:

10. Man tricks bot into selling him a Chevy Tahoe for $1

9. A real-life interpretation hypo for the ages: “No Cell Phone Use in the Locker Room”

8. Simple teaching case on asocial promises (from New Zealand!), with a  promissory estoppel chaser

7. Sid DeLong muses on contracts issues in Moby Dick 

6. Disney makes an outrageous arbitration argument (in response to a highly-attenuated theory of vicarious liability)

5. Liquid Death cites Leonard v. Pepsico in a new, jet-giveaway advertising gimmick

4. Brian Bix on the Passing of Charles Fried

3. Samsung wins (perhaps because of plaintiffs’ lawyers oversight) against a mass arbitration claim by refusing to arbitrate

2. Great short teaching case on negligent misrepresentation (by bot) from Canada

1. A true-life Sales hypo with infinite variations: D’oh! A Deer!