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Bloomer Girl Revisited Or How To Frame An Unmade Picture, Victor P. Goldberg
Bloomer Girl Revisited Or How To Frame An Unmade Picture, Victor P. Goldberg
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The standard analysis of Parker v. Twentieth Century Fox follows the court in focusing on whether the substitute employment offered Shirley MacLaine was "different and inferior" from that which she had initially contracted for. That, this paper argues, was the wrong question. The court managed to produce the right outcome, but through convoluted reasoning that failed to recognize the essential feature of the contract. The contract had a "pay-or-play" provision by which the studio, in effect, purchased an option on her time; they would pay her to be ready to make a particular film, but they made no promise to …
In Search Of Best Efforts: Reinterpreting Bloor V. Falstaff, Victor P. Goldberg
In Search Of Best Efforts: Reinterpreting Bloor V. Falstaff, Victor P. Goldberg
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Bloor v. Falstaff has become the standard casebook example of judicial interpretation of a "best efforts" clause. The court held that Falstaff's lackluster promotional efforts for Ballantine beer violated its "best efforts covenant, a result that has met with near universal approval. However, when the problem is properly framed, the decision is clearly wrong. The court's failure to consider the purpose of the transaction led it astray. Falstaff almost certainly did not breach its obligation.
The essential feature of the contract is that Ballantine was exiting the beer business and was making a one-shot sale of some of its assets …