KProfsBlog<p>Update on the fate of @mauraf.bsky.social, who has left a tenured position at Muhlenberg College and academia because she was likely going to be fired for her anti-Zionist views despite faculty and AAUP support. All is not well in the academy.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contracts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zionism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/update-on-academic-freedom-and-professor-maura-finkelstein.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawprofessors.typepad.com/cont</span><span class="invisible">ractsprof_blog/2025/06/update-on-academic-freedom-and-professor-maura-finkelstein.html</span></a></p>
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Having previously entered into settlements with Washington, D.C. and Illinois, Doordash has now agreed in a settlement with NY AG Letitia James to distribute $16.8 million to its New York State employees whose tips it stole. It’s a start. Still, I wish I used Doordash so I could stop using Doordash.
#law #contracts #Settlements #Regulation
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/new-yorks-attorney-general-forces-doordash-to-pay-workers-for-stolen-tips.html
Bank enters into deal with jails that detainees’ money upon arrest plus any outside funds received go onto a debit card. Upon release, the detainee gets the card, which comes with fees. Court certified class action for violations of state and federal law.
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New Top Tens dropped yesterday. "A Theory of Complexity Aversion" and "The Form Knows Best" top the charts. Post on the latter coming Monday.
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A home where Pope Leo XIV lived as a child went up for sale, then there was to be an auction, and now the Village of Dolton, Illinois is seeking to purchase it. I haven’t seen this much excitement since George Costanza bought Jon Voight’s car.
Court dismisses class action against Amazon Prime alleging breach of contract for making us pay to watch ad-free. Following precedent, the Court finds the change a permissible change in services rather than an impermissible price increase. 
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AIG and KitchenAid provide a warranty that they will fix appliances or pay the depreciated value of appliances that they can’t fix. But what if they often can’t fix things because there are no maintenance people available?
#law #contracts #warranties #appliances #repairs #litigation
We’ve had about two juicy mistake cases a year since 2021, and they just keep coming. The latest is the story of Harvard’s accidental acquisition of one of seven surviving copies of the 1300 Magna Carta.
Today’s post summarizes the findings of ProPublica and Tennessee Lookout reporting on a very aggressive pay-day lender that has won $200 million in judgments by filing 100,000 suits against Tennessee borrowers since 2015. If only there were an agency . . .
The new Top Tens are out, but there’s not much movement. The most exciting move is that Xavier Gabaix’s “Theory of Complexity Aversion” has moved up to #2, but I probably won’t read it because I fear it’s too complicated.
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/05/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-may-13-2025.html
A business interruption insurance claim by Baylor’s College of Medicine went the way of almost all such claims, but only because the court felt compelled by precedent to ignore some damn good expert testimony.
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/05/texas-court-of-appeals-reverses-12-million-judgment-in-covid-related-insurance-claim.html
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Finally, he sought a list of additional #unredacted agency records—including all GEC #grants & #contracts, as well as subgrants, which are particularly sensitive due to risks of #retaliation to subgrantees, who often work in local #journalism, #FactChecking, or pro-#democracy orgs under repressive regimes. It also asked for “all documents mentioning” the #ElectionIntegrity Partnership, a #research collaboration between #academics & #tech that has been a target of the #RightWing.
What better way to celebrate May Day than with an account of the National Treasury Employee Union’s victory, enjoining the Administration from terminating collective bargaining rights for 2/3 of the federal work force? The order came out on Friday, the opinion on Monday.
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