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Commercial Law In The Cracks Of Judicial Federalism, Donald J. Smythe
Commercial Law In The Cracks Of Judicial Federalism, Donald J. Smythe
ExpressO
Almost seventy years after the Supreme Court sought to rationalize the American system of judicial federalism in Erie, sales law remains trapped in a pattern more reminiscent of the Swift v. Tyson era. The extraordinarily wide separation of powers in the NCCUSL-ALI uniform law-making process has entrenched Article 2 of the UCC in the status quo. Concurrently, an imbalance between the federal and state courts in the American system of judicial federalism has conferred an unusually wide range of discretion over state commercial law on the federal courts. Ironically, therefore, state sales statutes are being reinterpreted and revised by the …
Uniform Commercial Code Survey, Sales, Keith A. Rowley, Robyn L. Meadows, Larry T. Garvin, Carolyn L. Dessin
Uniform Commercial Code Survey, Sales, Keith A. Rowley, Robyn L. Meadows, Larry T. Garvin, Carolyn L. Dessin
Robyn L Meadows
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Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Sales, Keith A. Rowley, Carolyn L. Dessin, Larry T. Garvin, Robyn L. Meadows
Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Sales, Keith A. Rowley, Carolyn L. Dessin, Larry T. Garvin, Robyn L. Meadows
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2005 Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Sales
Improving The Rolling Contract, Stephen E. Friedman
Improving The Rolling Contract, Stephen E. Friedman
American University Law Review
This article addresses the increasingly common problem of buyers finding important contract terms inside the box of a newly purchased item instead of learning about them before or during purchase. The failure of courts to develop a satisfactory approach to deciding which contact terms sellers may provide after purchase is of great significance in light of the rapid proliferation of rolling contracts. In this article, Friedman proposes a mechanism that will ensure that sellers have the flexibility to defer presentation of some terms but that will also protect purchasers against the unfair imposition of unexpected and important terms arriving at …