Contracts: Law in Action, The Concise Course

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Table of Contents

Preface iii
Introduction
1(24)
Studying Law
1(15)
Law School Classes and Contract Theories
3(1)
Law School Classes
3(1)
The Classic Approach
3(3)
Legal Realism
6(1)
Neutral Principles and Procedures
7(2)
Economics-and-Law
9(1)
Critical Legal Studies
10(2)
Law-and-Society
12(1)
Law School Examinations
13(1)
Ends and Means: What am I Here For?
14(2)
Contracts Courses
16(9)
The Goals of the Course: Lawyers and Contracts
16(4)
Contracts: Law in Action
20(5)
Remedies For Breach of Contract
25(150)
Protecting the Expectation Interest
25(14)
A Long, But Necessary, Digression: Of Two Codes, Reading Statutes, and the Application of Article 2 of the UCC
26(2)
Robert Braucher, Legislative History of the Uniform Commercial Code
28(9)
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
37(1)
The Expectation Interest: The Substitute Contract as the Preferred Means to the End
38(1)
The Expectation Interest: Of Inferior Substitutes, Other Ends and Other Means
39(22)
Shirley Maclaine Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
40(5)
Notes and Questions
45(6)
Anthony Neri v. Retail Marine Corporation
51(3)
Notes and Questions
54(7)
The Expectation Interest: Performance Rather Than Damages
61(8)
Copylease Corporation of America v. Memorex Corporation
61(2)
Notes and Questions
63(6)
The Expectation Interest: Breach Deterrence Versus Liquidated Damages
69(10)
Lake River Corporation v. Carborundum Company
69(6)
Notes and Questions
75(4)
The Expectation Interest: Lost Anticipated Profits and Consequential Damages
79(12)
Putting Aggrieved Parties Not Quite Where They Would Have Been Had the Contract Been Performed
80(1)
Hadley v. Baxendale
80(2)
Notes and Questions
82(3)
Proof of Damages with Reasonable Certainty: Of New Businesses and Experts
85(1)
Evergreen Amusement Corporation v. Milstead
85(3)
Notes and Questions
88(3)
The Expectation Interest: Foreseeability and Proof with Reasonable Certainty as Barriers to Relief
91(24)
Appellate Cases as a Biased Sample of Events in the World
91(1)
Content Analysis and the Interaction of Doctrines
92(2)
Karl N. Llewellyn, What Price Contract?---An Essay In Perspective
94(2)
Stewart Macaulay, The Use and Non-Use of Contract in the Manufacturing Industry
96(2)
The Reliance Interest
98(2)
Security Stove & Manufacturing Co. v. American Railways Express Co
100(5)
Notes and Questions
105(3)
L. Albert & Son v. Armstrong Rubber Co.
108(4)
Notes and Questions
112(3)
Restitution and Exit as Alternatives to Contract Remedies for Breach of Contract
115(35)
Introduction
115(1)
Walking Away From a Deal: Exit and Restitution
116(1)
Sales of Goods
116(1)
Bertell Ollman, Class Struggle is the Name of the Game
117(3)
Notes and Questions
120(2)
Colonial Dodge, Inc. v. Miller
122(4)
Notes and Questions
126(1)
Colonial Dodge, Inc. v. Miller
126(4)
Notes and Questions
130(3)
Substantial Performance in Building Contracts
133(2)
Restitution as an Alternative Remedy for Breach of Contract
135(1)
The Remedy and its Impact
135(1)
Oliver v. Campbell
135(6)
Notes and Questions
141(2)
Difficulties with Restitution as a Remedy for Breach of Contract
143(1)
Notes and Questions
143(4)
Restitution for the Plaintiff in Default
147(1)
Notes and Questions
148(2)
Fuller and Perdue's Categories as Surrogates for Difficult Normative Choices
150(25)
Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Company
151(7)
Notes and Questions
158(7)
Alice Sullivan v. James H. O'Connor
165(5)
Notes and Questions
170(5)
Contract and Continuing Relations
175(206)
Introduction
175(16)
The Vocabulary of Contract Formation
178(1)
An Introduction to the Rules of Offer and Acceptance
179(10)
A Policy Approach to Judicial Intervention
189(2)
Contract in the Family Setting
191(95)
Which Promises Should the Law Enforce?---Illustrations and Issues
191(1)
Courts and Contracts Between Husband and Wife
191(1)
Balfour v. Balfour
191(2)
Notes and Questions
193(5)
Marriage and Cohabitation Contracts
198(1)
Notes and Questions
199(1)
Contracts Between ``Husband'' and ``Wife'' Who are not Married: Courts Swim in the Dismal Swamp
199(1)
Marvin v. Marvin
200(8)
Notes and Questions
208(11)
Which Promises Should the Law Enforce?---The Response of Contracts Doctrine and the Role of Form
219(1)
``Bait:'' Promises by a Family Member with Money to Influence the Lives of Those Without It
219(4)
Hamer v. Sidway
223(4)
Notes and Questions
227(2)
An Introduction to the Doctrine of Consideration
229(10)
The Conditional Gift Revisited
239(1)
Kirksey v. Kirksey
239(1)
Notes and Questions
240(1)
Andrew D. Ricketts, Executor v. Katie Scothorn
240(2)
Notes and Questions
242(4)
The Statute of Frauds and Family ``Bait'' Promises
246(8)
Notes and Questions
254(4)
Family Bait: Reaching the Right Result by Manipulating Doctrines of Contract Formation
258(6)
Contracts to Provide for the Old: Contract and Restitution as a Substitute for an Extended Family
264(8)
If Law is to Intervene, What Remedies are Appropriate?
272(1)
Reliance and the Expectation Interest in the Family Context
272(1)
Specific Performance and ``Shotgun Marriages''
273(3)
Notes and Questions
276(1)
Fitzpatrick v. Michael
276(5)
Notes and Questions
281(1)
Brackenbury v. Hodgkin
282(2)
Notes and Questions
284(2)
Alternatives to Litigation in Family Matters
286(11)
Stories from Other Societies
286(3)
``Alternatives'' in American Society
289(2)
Calls for New Approaches and the Practice of Law
291(1)
Calls for Mediation Rather Than Adjudication
291(1)
Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Practice of Law
292(1)
Marc Galanter, Worlds of Deals: Using Negotiation to Teach About Legal Process
293(2)
Effectiveness of Mediation
295(1)
Compensating Care for the Old
296(1)
Franchise and Employment Relations
297(68)
The Franchise
298(1)
Creating the Relationship
298(1)
Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc.
298(8)
Notes and Questions
306(6)
Ending the Relationship
312(5)
Notes and Questions
317(2)
Grievance Processes Under Collective Bargaining
319(1)
Grievance Systems
319(1)
Arbitration Versus Adjudication
320(1)
In re Trans World Airlines, Inc.
321(2)
Notes and Questions
323(3)
Judicial Review of Arbitration
326(1)
Employment Relations
327(1)
Proving Employment Contracts and Gaining Meaningful Remedies
327(1)
McIntosh v. Murphy
327(5)
Notes and Questions
332(1)
Employment-at-Will
333(1)
Introduction
333(1)
Forrer v. Sears, Roebuck & Company
333(3)
Notes and Questions
336(1)
Development of the At-Will Doctrine
336(2)
California: A Case Study in Conflicting and Contrasting Rules
338(1)
Gordon Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Company
339(7)
Advance, and Then Retreat (or is it Retreat, and Then Advance?)
346(5)
California Revisited: Foley, Gantt and Hunter
351(1)
Where Are We Now?
352(1)
Public policy exception
352(1)
Implied-in-fact contracts
352(1)
The covenant of good faith and fair dealing
353(1)
Other causes of action
353(3)
Reflecting on the Struggle Over Employment-at-Will
356(1)
``The Job as Property Right'' (Peter F. Drucker)
357(2)
Employment-at-will and the free market
359(1)
Employment-at-will and the idea of ``consent''
360(1)
Farber and Matheson
361(1)
Employment-at-will as protecting the already-protected
362(1)
In Conclusion . . . A hypothetical
363(2)
Long-Term Relationships in Commercial Transactions
365(16)
Relational Sanctions and Enforceable Contracts
365(1)
Business Views on Other-Than-Legal Sanctions
366(2)
Form Contract Provisions
368(2)
Contract Litigation and Appeals
370(2)
Notes and Questions
372(1)
Commercial Relationships and Private Governments
373(8)
Social Control of Free Contract
381(184)
Social Control and the Interests of Other
383(18)
Illegal Contracts
383(1)
Introduction
383(1)
Illegality: Form and Substance
383(1)
Edna Carroll v. Agnes Beardon
384(2)
Notes and Questions
386(2)
Comparative Fault
388(1)
John Karpinski v. Gene Collins and Ruth Collins
389(2)
Notes and Questions
391(1)
Contracts Against Public Policy
392(1)
Introduction
392(1)
Covenants by Employees Not to Compete
393(1)
Fullerton Lumber Co. v. Albert Torborg
393(7)
Notes and Questions
400(1)
Social Control, Contract and Choice
401(60)
Introduction
401(2)
Capacity to Contract
403(1)
Mental Incapacity to Contract
404(2)
Contracts Made Under the Influence of Drugs
406(1)
Contracts Made with Minors---Infancy
406(2)
Duress
408(1)
The Search for a Standard
408(1)
R. L. Mitchell v. C. C. Sanitation Company, Inc.
409(3)
Notes and Questions
412(2)
A Case Study in One Jurisdiction
414(1)
Wurtz v. Fleischman
414(6)
Wurtz v. Fleischman
420(2)
Notes and Questions
422(1)
Yet Another Standard?
422(1)
The Selmer Company v. Blakeslee-Midwest Company
422(4)
Notes and Questions
426(2)
Undue Influence
428(2)
Notes and Questions
430(3)
Misrepresentation
433(4)
Obde v. Schlemeyer
437(4)
Notes and Questions
441(4)
Good Faith
445(1)
Market Street Associates v. Frey
445(7)
Notes and Questions
452(1)
Most of the Theories at Once: A Review
453(1)
Vokes v. Arthur Murray, Inc.
453(4)
Notes and Questions
457(4)
Social Control in the Guise of Seeking Choice: Choice and Form Contracts
461(33)
Stewart Macaulay, Private Legislation and the Duty to Read---Business Run by IBM Machine, the Law of Contracts and Credit Cards
461(1)
McCutcheon v. David MacBrayne Ltd.
461(8)
Notes and Questions
469(2)
ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg
471(5)
Notes and Questions
476(2)
Hill v. Gateway 2000, Inc.
478(3)
Notes and Questions
481(3)
C & J Fertilizer, Inc. v. Allied Mut Ins. Co.
484(8)
Notes and Questions
492(2)
Warranty, Disclaimers and Remedy Limitations: the UCC Pattern
494(19)
Warranties as a Tool to Guard Expectations
494(2)
Warranties, Express and Implied
496(3)
Conspicuous Disclaimers and Conscionable Remedy Limitations
499(1)
Hunt v. Perkins Machinery Co., Inc.
499(3)
Notes and Questions
502(4)
Regulating Warranties in Consumer Transactions
506(7)
Unconscionability
513(52)
Retailing and the Poor
514(1)
Federal Trade Commission Economic Report on Installment Credit and Retail Sales Practices in the District of Columbia
514(5)
Notes and Questions
519(2)
The First Cases
521(1)
Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.
521(4)
Notes and Questions
525(2)
Retailing and the Poor in Modern Form
527(1)
Remco Enterprises, Inc. v. Alice Houston
527(5)
Notes and Questions
532(2)
Unconscionability and Consumer/Employee Arbitration Agreements
534(1)
Barry Meier, In Fine Print, Customers Lose Ability to Sue The New York Times
534(4)
Tony Brower v. Gateway 2000, Inc.
538(6)
Notes and Questions
544(2)
Robert Ramirez III v. Circuit City Stores, Inc.
546(5)
Notes and Questions
551(1)
Remedies for Victims of Unconscionable Contracts
552(1)
Frostifresh Corp v. Reynoso
552(1)
Frostifresh Corp v. Reynoso
553(1)
Pearson v. National Budgeting Systems, Inc.
554(1)
Notes and Questions
554(2)
Evaluating Unconscionability
556(1)
Arthur Leff, Unconscionability and the Crowd---Consumers and the Common Law Tradition
556(5)
Notes and Questions
561(4)
Formation of Contract
565(78)
Choice, Fault, or Something Else?
568(12)
Embry v. Hargadine, Mckittrick Dry Goods Co.
568(3)
Notes and Questions
571(5)
Stewart Macaulay, Private Legislation and the Duty to Read---Business Run by IBM Machine, the Law of Contracts and Credit Cards
576(4)
The Risk of Ambiguity or Misunderstanding
580(51)
Choice and the Careless Use of Language
582(1)
Raffles v. Wichelhaus
582(1)
Notes and Questions
583(2)
Flat Rules to Allocate Losses
585(1)
WPC Enterprises, Inc. v. United States
585(4)
Notes and Questions
589(1)
When is it Too Late to Discover a Mistake and Avoid the Contract?
589(1)
Introducing the Problem of the Mistaken Bid
589(2)
The Mailbox Rule
591(3)
The Firm Offer
594(5)
Janke Construction Co. v. Vulcan Materials Co.
599(6)
Notes and Questions
605(5)
Marana Unified School Dist. No. 6 v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Co.
610(5)
Notes and Questions
615(1)
Unilateral Mistakes in Communicating: I Meant ``X'' But Said ``Y''
615(7)
Malcolm Pitman Sharp, Promissory Liability II
622(3)
S.T.S. Transport Service, Inc. v. Volvo White Truck Corp.
625(5)
Notes and Questions
630(1)
Unenforceable Contracts, Restitution and Reliance
631(12)
Vickery v. Ritchie
632(2)
Notes and Questions
634(4)
Dunnebacke v. Pittman
638(3)
Notes and Questions
641(2)
Incomplete Planning, Flexibility and Enforceability
643(102)
Specifying Ends But Not Means: ``We Can Work it Out!''
643(18)
Building Construction and Ordinary People
643(1)
Klimek v. Perisich
643(2)
Notes and Questions
645(1)
The UCC and Indefiniteness: Transactions in Goods Between Major Corporations
646(1)
Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Litton Industries, Inc.
646(12)
Notes and Questions
658(3)
Flexible Price and Quantity: ``I'll Buy What I Want at a Fair Price''
661(31)
Flexible Pricing
664(2)
Thomas R. Hurst, Drafting Contracts in an Inflationary Era
666(7)
Notes and Questions
673(2)
Flexible Quantity
675(1)
Blanket Orders
675(1)
Stewart Macaulay, The Standardized Contracts of United States Automobile Manufacturers
675(5)
Notes and Questions
680(1)
Requirements and Output Contracts
681(1)
Empire Gas Corp. v. American Bakeries Co.
682(6)
Notes and Questions
688(1)
Distributorships---Is a Distribution Contract a Requirements Contract?
689(3)
Business Documents and Forming Contracts
692(45)
Business Documents and Commercial Practices
695(2)
The Battle of the Forms: Magic Through Contract Drafting
697(6)
Section 2-207 of the Uniform Commercial Code
703(1)
McCarty v. Verson Allsteel Press Co.
704(8)
Notes and Questions
712(1)
Steiner v. Mobil Oil Corp.
713(6)
Notes and Questions
719(4)
C. Itoh & Co. (America) Inc. v. Jordan International Co.
723(6)
Notes and Questions
729(1)
Lawyers Cope with § 2-207: Business Procedures and Drafting Practices
730(3)
Notes and Questions
733(3)
Remember the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
736(1)
Closing the Deal But Leaving a Way Out
737(8)
Hills, Inc. v. William B. Kessler, Inc.
738(2)
Notes and Questions
740(5)
The Deal is Closed---But What is it?
745(120)
Introduction
745(3)
Interpretation and Construction of Contractual Language
748(23)
Edwin W. Patterson, The Interpretation and Construction of Contracts
748(12)
Notes and Questions
760(1)
E. Allan Farnsworth, ``Meaning'' in the Law of Contracts
761(3)
Federal Express Corp. v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.
764(3)
Notes and Questions
767(4)
The Parol Evidence Rule
771(67)
John D. Calamari & Joseph M. Perillo, A Plea for a Uniform Parol Evidence Rule and Principles of Contract Interpretation
773(8)
The Parol Evidence Rule: Search for Truth . . . Or Defense of Form?
781(1)
Binks Manufacturing Co. v. National Presto Industries, Inc.
781(5)
Notes and Questions
786(1)
Of Partial Integrations and Side Agreements
787(1)
Mitchill v. Lath
787(4)
Notes and Questions
791(1)
Masterson v. Sine
792(5)
Notes and Questions
797(9)
The Parol Evidence Rule, Misrepresentation, and Promissory Estoppel
806(1)
Enrico Farms, Inc. v. H.J. Heinz Co., Palladino v. Contadina Foods, Inc.
806(2)
Notes and Questions
808(3)
Nanakuli Paving and Rock Co. v. Shell Oil Co.
811(17)
Notes and Questions
828(2)
Merger and ``No Representations'' Clauses
830(1)
Anderson v. Tri-State Home Improvement Co.
830(2)
Notes and Questions
832(6)
Conclusions About the Parol Evidence Rule
838(11)
AM International, Incorporated v. Graphic Management Associates, Inc.
838(5)
Notes and Questions
843(6)
The Adjustment or Modification of Performance Terms
849(7)
``Written Modifications Only'' Clauses
850(1)
Universal Builders, Inc. v. Moon Motor Lodge, Inc.
850(3)
Notes and Questions
853(3)
Waiving Conditions Contrasted with Modifying Contracts
856(9)
Clark v. West
856(3)
Notes and Questions
859(6)
Performance and Breach of Contract
865(122)
The Main Themes---Promises, Conditions and the Role of Courts
865(23)
The Logic of ``Conditions''
865(7)
Conditions and Forfeitures: Free Contract vs. Fairness and Sympathy?
872(3)
Ronald D. Davis v. Allstate Insurance Co.
875(3)
Notes and Questions
878(3)
Van Iderstine Co. v. Barnet Leather Co.
881(3)
Notes and Questions
884(4)
My Right to Call Off Some or All of the Deal Because of Your Failure to Perform: ``Material Failure of Performance''
888(97)
A Note and Some Problems to Set the Stage
888(3)
Solutions Offered by the Restatement (Second) of Contracts
891(1)
Transactions in Goods: The Basic Solutions of the UCC
892(1)
The General Pattern
892(1)
Inspection and Acceptance of the Goods
893(1)
Ardex Cosmetics of America v. Logotech, Inc.
893(4)
Notes and Questions
897(1)
Cooperation and Good Faith
897(3)
Notice: § 2-607(3)(a)-and a Note on § 2-608(2)
900(1)
Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.
900(9)
Notes and Questions
909(12)
Section 2-508: The Seller's Right to Cure
921(1)
T.W. Oil, Inc. v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.
921(4)
Notes and Questions
925(2)
CISG and Imperfect Performance
927(1)
Two Classic, But Troublesome, Problems
928(1)
Installment Contracts and the Failure to Perform Part of the Deal
928(1)
Ervin F. Palmer v. Watson Construction Company
929(3)
Notes and Questions
932(5)
Installment Contracts and the UCC
937(4)
Midwest Mobile Diagnostic Imaging, L.L.C. v. Dynamics Corporation of America
941(11)
Notes and Questions
952(2)
The Long Wait: Delay and Calling Off the Deal After One Has Given Extension
954(1)
Fairchild Stratos Corp. v. Lear Siegler, Inc.
954(5)
Notes and Questions
959(7)
``Anticipatory Breach'' and ``Reasonable Grounds for Insecurity''
966(1)
Repudiation and the Power to Walk Away From the Deal
966(2)
Insisting on my Interpretation of the Contract as Repudiation
968(1)
Bill's Coal Co., Inc. v. Board of Public Utilities of Springfield, Missouri
968(4)
Notes and Questions
972(2)
Anticipatory Repudiation and the Calculation of Damages
974(1)
Uncertainty About the Other Side's Performance---The Code's Framework
975(1)
AMF, Inc. v. McDonald's Corp
975(3)
Notes and Questions
978(1)
Cherwell-Ralli, Inc. v. Rytman Grain Co., Inc.
979(3)
Notes and Questions
982(1)
Uncertainty About Peformance---At Common Law
983(2)
Self-Help in the Face of Default
985(2)
Adjusting to Changed Circumstances: Risks Assumed and Imposed
987
Mistake, Impossibility and Frustration: Contract Doctrine, Restitution, and Coping with the Problems
987(29)
Contrasting Legal Approaches
988(1)
Paradine v. Jane
989(1)
Notes and Questions
989(4)
Taylor and Another Against Caldwell and Another
993(6)
Notes and Questions
999(2)
Coping with Floods, Strikes and the Like
1001(1)
Business Practices
1001(1)
Allocations: Solutions With a High Potential for Dispute
1002(2)
Restitution After an Excuse
1004(12)
Contracts Involving Large Organizations and Great Events of our Time
1016
The Spirit of Paradine v. Jane
1017(3)
Handicapped Children's Ed Bd. of Sheboygan Co. v. Lukaszewski
1020(5)
Notes and Questions
1025(2)
Transatlantic Financing Corporation v. United States
1027(4)
Notes and Questions
1031(1)
7200 Scottsdale Road General Partners v. Kuhn Farm Machinery, Inc.
1032(8)
Notes and Questions
1040(1)
Paradine v. Jane or Taylor v. Caldwell?
1041(1)
Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.
1041(9)
Notes and Questions
1050(2)
Do the Rules Change When the Game Gets Bigger?
1052(4)
Notes and Questions
1056(7)
Notes and Questions
1063(3)
Aluminum Company of America v. Essex Group, Inc.
1066(26)
Notes and Questions
1092
Table of Cases 1(1)
Table of Statutes 1(1)
Index 1

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