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Boesiger V. Desert Appraisals, Llc, 135 Nev. Adv. Op. 25 (July 3, 2019), Jeff Garrett
Boesiger V. Desert Appraisals, Llc, 135 Nev. Adv. Op. 25 (July 3, 2019), Jeff Garrett
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The Court held that Appellants provided insufficient evidence to show that Respondents had a duty to Appellant or breached their duty to Appellant. The Appellants failed to provide the required expert testimony necessary for a case concerning the professional conduct of a profession whose standards and procedures are not known to the public. Additionally, because the contract between the Appellants and the Respondents did not expressly name the Appellants as third-party beneficiaries, the Appellants do not have standing to request the contract be enforced.
Consent To Retaliation: A Civil Recourse Theory Of Contractual Liability, Nathan B. Oman
Consent To Retaliation: A Civil Recourse Theory Of Contractual Liability, Nathan B. Oman
Faculty Publications
In the ancient Near East, contracts were often solemnized by hacking up a goat. The ritual was an enacted penalty clause: “If I breach this contract, let it be done to me as we are doing to the goat.” This Article argues that we are not so far removed from our goat-hacking forbearers. Legal scholars have argued that contractual liability is best explained by the morality of promise making, or by the need to create optimal incentives in contractual performance. In contrast, this Article argues for the simpler, rawer claim that contractual liability consists of consent to retaliation in the …
Expectation Damages The Objective Theory Of Contracts And The Hairy Hand Case A Proposed Modification To The Effect Of Two Classical Contract Law Axioms In Cases Involving Contractual, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Faculty Scholarship
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The Doctrine Of Good Faith In Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, Emily Houh
The Doctrine Of Good Faith In Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, Emily Houh
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Empty Vessel explores both the positive and normative questions of what the contractually implied obligation of good faith does and should require of contracting parties. The Article attempts to assess and evaluate the ways in which courts are currently employing the good faith doctrine in contract disputes, as part of a larger project whose goal is to re-conceive and reinvigorate the private law doctrine of good faith as one that might assist in effecting the public law norm of equality. Empty Vessel identifies two dominant theoretical approaches to how to define good faith, which I refer to as the fairness …
Boundaries Of Extracompensatory Relief For Abusive Breach Of Contract, The , Nicholas J. Johnson
Boundaries Of Extracompensatory Relief For Abusive Breach Of Contract, The , Nicholas J. Johnson
Faculty Scholarship
The idea of extracompensatory damages for abusive breach of contract presents a fundamental conflict. Contract doctrine aims to facilitate exchanges. Extracompensatory damages are disincentives. These aims are essentially irreconcilable. And traditionally the goal of facilitating exchanges has trumped any interest in punishing bad conduct. But there is a lingering sense that sometimes a proportionate response to bad conduct surrounding breach requires more than the traditional measure of damages. At the edges of contract doctrine, two notable experiments manifest the sense that some breaches demand more than compensatory damages. One, the failed California experiment with bad faith breach, permitted the plaintiff …
The Law Of Contract And The Concept Of Change: Public And Private Attempts To Regulate Modification, Waiver, And Estoppel, David Snyder
The Law Of Contract And The Concept Of Change: Public And Private Attempts To Regulate Modification, Waiver, And Estoppel, David Snyder
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Oosten V. Hay Haulers Dairy Employees & Helpers Union, Jesse W. Carter
Oosten V. Hay Haulers Dairy Employees & Helpers Union, Jesse W. Carter
Jesse Carter Opinions
A creamery whose employees refused to accept milk provided under contract by a milk producer, who signed with a different union, was liable for breach of contract and damages to cover the lower price the milk producer subsequently received elsewhere.
Dawson V. Goff, Jesse W. Carter
Dawson V. Goff, Jesse W. Carter
Jesse Carter Opinions
Change of venue was appropriate in breach of contract action where transferee county was where contract was made and where defendant purchasers resided; binding option contract was made in county where executed, not in county where accepted.