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Cases Versus Theory, Richard B. Collins
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
Faculty Scholarship
Nearly all contracts casebooks feature the saga of Shirley MacLaine's suit against Twentieth Century Fox arising from the cancellation of the proposed film Bloomer Girl. None really get the story right. To be fair, none try. The case is a vehicle for exploring the obligation of the victim of the breach of an employment contract to take alternative employment. If MacLaine refused an offer of alternative employment that was not "different and inferior," her failure to mitigate would mean that the earnings she would have received would be offset against the damages; so, asked the court, was the alternative …
Free To Choose, Randy E. Barnett
Free To Choose, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
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