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H.J. Russell & Company, Order Granting With Prejudice Defendants' Join Motion To Dismiss, Wesley B. Tailor

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Troy Welker And Min Turner V. Mimedx Group, Inc., Et Al., Order On Motions To Dismiss, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Standard Chartered Bank Plc V Celine Meena Nair [2019] Zmca 221, Ntemena Mwanamwambwa, Milambo Chibbonta-Pupwe

SAIPAR Case Review

This case is one of a kind and therefore significant for several reasons in the jurisprudence of Zambian Employment Law. The case highlights that the employer-employee relationship is one founded on the implied term of mutual trust and confidence which entails that both parties must accord each other due trust and respect regardless of status.

The decision in this case, sets a clear and stern tone in cases of constructive dismissal bordering on toxicity within the working environment. Thus, employers are put on notice to adhere to their own grievance procedures particularly in cases involving bullying, harassment and victimization such …

Third-Party Beneficiaries Of Government Contracts: Imagining An Equitable Approach And Applying It To Broken Promises In Detroit, Gabe Chess

Michigan Law Review

Courts have widely adopted a heightened standard for recognizing third-party beneficiaries of government contracts. But the justifications offered for the heightened standard do not withstand scrutiny. Instead, courts should apply a series of equitable factors to produce results consistent with the concern for “manifest justice” that animates third-party beneficiary doctrine. Governments make contracts frequently, often to address issues of huge importance to their citizens, including housing, economic development, and healthcare. In each of these areas, third-party beneficiary doctrine may be an important avenue of relief to citizens harmed by broken promises and may encourage the government and its contracting partners …

Eva Chiboni V. New Future Finance Company Limited 2020/Hpc/0776, Chanda Chungu

SAIPAR Case Review

The decision in Eva Chiboni has been seen by some as a victory for vulnerable groups of people in Zambia, compared to bigger entities that do at time take advantage of parties with less bargaining powers. However, as this article has demonstrated, it reached an outcome not supported by principles of law, particularly those relating to the need to provide lucid and clear evidence of a vitiating factor or illegality to declare a contract null and void.

Zambia Electronic Clearing House Limited V. James Kalengo Caz Appeal No. 239 Of 2020, Chanda Chungu

SAIPAR Case Review

The Court of Appeal’s decision in James Kalengo is crucial because it demonstrates that the concept of a legitimate expectation of renewal, as a principle and concept exists under Zambian employment law. Whilst an employer does retain the discretion to renew a contract of employment or not when it is due to expire, an employee may have a legitimate expectation of renewal if there is any past practice, prior promise or bad faith/mala fides in relation to the renewal.

Mark Tink And Others V. Lumwana Mining Company Limited Caz Appeal No. 41/2021, Chanda Chungu

SAIPAR Case Review

The decision in Mark Tink and Others v. Lumwana Mining Company Limited is an important decision because it clarifies and restates that law that a valid reason, that is substantiated is required when an employer initiates termination of the contract of employment.

This article critiques the approach of the Court of Appeal as it relates to the award of damages. This article seeks to provide clarity as it relates to the award of damages, particularly the way is granted and justified. It is suggested that when the opportunity arises either the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court should revise …

Boba Fett, Bounty Hunters, And The Supreme Court’S Viking River Decision: A New Hope, Imre S. Szalai

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

The United States Supreme Court recently issued a fractured decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, 142 S. Ct. 1906 (June 15, 2022), a classic David v. Goliath clash between a worker and employer. Can arbitration agreements be used to eliminate group or representative actions brought against employers, where the plaintiff worker is serving as a bounty hunter for the State? Although the majority clearly holds that a worker’s individual claims must be sent to arbitration pursuant to a predispute arbitration agreement, the splintered opinions leave some uncertainty regarding what happens to the representative claims of the other …

The Flaws Of Magic Bullet Theory: Retraining Unconscionability To Discretely Target Different Contexts Of Unfairness In Contracts, Marcus Moore

All Faculty Publications

Unconscionability has long been a troublesome area in Canadian jurisprudence. This is of significant concern given unconscionability’s pre-eminence as a protection of contractual fairness. This article elaborates a much-needed reorganization and rationalization of unconscionability in Canada. Under current law, a single doctrine hopelessly targets two divergent purposes. I set out here a proposed redevelopment rather of separate common law doctrines, each fit-for-purpose: (1) An English-style unconscionable bargains doctrine for avoiding bargains that exploited disability, and (2) an American-style unconscionable clauses doctrine to control unfair terms in standard form contracts. Extensive Canadian precedent supports this solution, assuring its feasibility and legitimacy. …

The Flaws Of Magic Bullet Theory: Retraining Unconscionability To Discretely Target Different Contexts Of Unfairness In Contracts, Marcus Moore Dr.

Dalhousie Law Journal

Unconscionability has long been a troublesome area in Canadian jurisprudence. This is of significant concern given unconscionability’s pre-eminence as a protection of contractual fairness. This article elaborates a much-needed reorganization and rationalization of unconscionability in Canada. Under current law, a single doctrine hopelessly targets two divergent purposes. I set out here a proposed redevelopment rather of separate common law doctrines, each fit-for-purpose: (1) An English-style unconscionable bargains doctrine for avoiding bargains that exploited disability, and (2) an American-style unconscionable clauses doctrine to control unfair terms in standard form contracts. Extensive Canadian precedent supports this solution, assuring its feasibility and legitimacy. …

Systemic Risk Of Contract, Tal Kastner

BYU Law Review

Complexity and uncertainty define our world, now more than ever. Scholars and practitioners have celebrated modular contract design as an especially effective tool to manage these challenges. Modularity divides complex structures into relatively discrete, independent components with simple connections. The benefits of this fundamental drafting approach are intuitive. Lawyers divide contracts into sections and provisions to make them easier to understand and reduce uncertainty. Dealmakers constructing complex transactions use portable agreements as building blocks to reduce drafting costs and enable innovation. Little attention, however, has been paid to the risks introduced by modularity in contracts. This Article demonstrates how this …

Efektivitas Alat Bukti Dalam Pembuktian Suatu Perjanjian Lisan, Aaron Pietter

Lex Patrimonium

Verbal agreement is something that cannot be separated in our daily life. It is confirmed that in every moment we always make a verbal agreement consciously or unconsciously. Within the scope of the court, verbal agreement is also used by the parties to prove their arguments so they can earn their rights and fullfill the other party obligations. Compared to the other type of evidence, verbal agreement have its own power and effectiveness level when being used as a legitive evidence before the court. To observe about the application and effectiveness of a verbal agreement as a legitive evidence before …

Perlindungan Hukum Bagi Kreditur Dalam Eksekusi Perjanjian Kredit Dengan Jaminan Hak Tanggungan, Muhammad Affandi

Lex Patrimonium

One of the guarantees in the credit agreement is a mortgage guarantee, where in the mortgage guarantee agreement, the assets guaranteed by the debtor to be used as collateral are land rights which can be in the form of buildings, plants, and works that already exist or will exist which are one unit with the land, and which belongs to the holder of the land rights whose burden is expressly stated in the Deed of Granting Mortgage concerned. From this study, the author aims to examine how legal protection for creditors in the execution of credit agreements with collateral rights …

Perlindungan Hukum Kreditur Terhadap Peralihan Jaminan Hak Tanggungan Dalam Jual Beli Piutang Melalui Cessie (Studi Kasus: Putusan Pengadilan Negeri Nomor 79/Pdt.G/2019 Pn Tab Dan Putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 754 Pk/Pdt/2011), Vanessa Maurizkha

Lex Patrimonium

Banks act as creditors for selling receivables through a cessie to credit. Problems that arise after the transfer of receivables are identical to the relevance of the validity of the cessie to the mortgage guarantee transfer stipulated in the main agreement. There are differences in the legal concequences in each conditions. The problems discussed in this research are the mechanism through a cessie in conventional banks according to Indonesian law, the development of the regulation on registration of transfer of mortgage, and the legal consequences of the act (cessie) on objects of mortgage guarantee based on the District Court Decision …

Tinjauan Yuridis Pengesahan Anak Luar Kawin Yang Dicatatkan Setelah Ayah Dari Anak Meninggal Dunia (Studi Kasus: Penetapan Pengadilan Negeri Jakarta Pusat Nomor: 36/Pdt.P/2020/Pn.Jkt.Pst.), Devina Delfian

Lex Patrimonium

The birth of a child from an unregistered polygamous marriage according to the prevailing laws is a juridical phenomenon that cannot be denied. As the part of legal events, unregistered polygamous marriages can bring further legal consequences to children born out of wedlock, which in law children born out of wedlock have a lower position than children born from legal marriages. Because of these differences, the law provides a solution for children born out of wedlock to have the same legal status as children born from legal marriages, namely through child legalization. This research will be continued by focusing on …

Perlawanan Pihak Ketiga Sebagai Pemilik Benda Terhadap Benda Yang Dijadikan Jaminan Fidusia Tanpa Persetujuan Pemilik Benda (Studi Kasus: Putusan Mahkamah Agung 1012 K/Pdt/2021), Aditya Nabilah Lubis

Lex Patrimonium

Property rights that have been specifically and comprehensively regulated in the Civil Code in Indonesia give the impression that the principle of property rights has been perfectly regulated, but in practice there are still gaps in the owner's rights to objects that are guaranteed not being protected properly. This thesis will discuss the problems caused by objects that are used as fiduciary guarantees in a credit agreement without the knowledge of the owner of the object (by committing fraud) as well as legal protection that can be given to the owner of the object and creditors who receive fiduciary guarantees …

Analisis Terhadap Kesepakatan Lisan Untuk Menjalankan Waralaba Sesuai Dengan Perjanjian Waralaba Yang Telah Berakhir (Studi Kasus Putusan Nomor 52/Pdt.G/2019 Jo. Putusan Nomor 396/Pdt/2021/Pt Dki, Fahira Zahara Ghassani

Lex Patrimonium

Franchising is a business system that makes it easy for entrepreneurs to expand their marketing. Therefore, before running a franchise business, the parties must make a franchise agreement that aims to protect the interests of the parties properly. A franchise agreement made in written form can be the basis or evidence if one of the parties defaults. However, there are still franchise businesses that make agreements in the form of unwritten or verbal actors, even though PP 42/2007 and Permendag 71/2019 require written agreements. This is what becomes between the franchisor and the franchisees involved in the franchise business as …

"Pemanfaatan Barang Milik Daerah Kabupaten Penajam Paser Utara (Studi Kasus Penyerahan Pengelolaan Sisi Darat Pelabuhan Buluminung)", Melindya Santoso Putri

Lex Patrimonium

The Regent as the Regional Head in the North Penajam Paser Regency should carry out Regional Property Management (BMD). With the existence of five forms of utilization in the form of rental, borrowing, utilization cooperation, building to handover or building handover, and cooperation in providing infrastructure based on PP 27/2014, PP 28/2020, Permendagri 19/2016, Pemda Penajam Paser North 11/2018. A port is a place consisting of land and or waters with certain boundaries as a place for government and company activities. There is a legal problem, namely in the transition of the Management of the Land Side of the Buluminung …

Perbandingan Hukum Pemutusan Surat Kuasa Secara Sepihak Antara Indonesia Dan Belanda Sebagai Bentuk Wanprestasi (Studi Putusan Nomor 704/Pdt.G2017/Pn.Mdn), Karsten Maruli Rogate Hutauruk

Lex Patrimonium

The power of attorney agreement is commonly found in dealing with a legal problem that carried out by the community, both in Indonesia and the Netherlands. In Indonesia the Power of Attorney Agreement, is regulated in Articles 1823 and 1814 of the Book of Civil Law which states that the Principal could revoke power of attorney at any time, but turns out that in practice there is Power of Attorney that can not be revoked called Irrevocable Power of Attorney. Regulated in the Instruction of the Internal Affairs Minister No. 14/1982 and Government Regulation No. 24 of 1997 that regulate …

Analisis Pencantuman Klausul Kompensasi Dalam Perjanjian Perkawinan Sebagai Implementasi Asas Kebebasan Berkontrak, Dinda Ramadhani

Lex Patrimonium

Marriage agreement is commonly recognized by the society nowadays. Article 29 Subsection (2) of Indonesian Marriage Act only regulate a limitation that the content of marriage agreement can not violate the law, religion, and ethics. There are different kind of opinions regarding whether marriage agreement can only regulate regarding matrimonial assets in accordance with Indonesian civil code or it can regulate in every aspect as long as it does not cross the limitation set by Article 29 Subsection (2). This research analyses about the inclusion of compensation clause in marriage agreement as an implementation of freedom of contract principle. Method …

Pewarisan Akun Digital, Nicolas Mario Gunawan

Lex Patrimonium

The rise of digital growth in this era of globalization has shown the need for adjustments in existing law in society, in relation to problems that may arise from said digital growth. One growth that can be said to have happened rampantly can be seen in the law of property, which has to face a lot of new additions that came due to digital growth, for example in bitcoins, MP3 Files, among many other things. Within said property, there is an item that are of interests due to the uniqueness of it, which is an account. Such uniqueness comes from …

Analisis Perbandingan Hukum Mengenai Tunjangan Pasca Perceraian Di Indonesia, Richard Daniel

Lex Patrimonium

Divorce, one of the many causes of the end of a marital relationship, brings an impact towards the parties bound in the marital relationship, specifically in the economic conditions.Of the many divorce cases present, the wife in the relationship more often experiences economic hardships, due to the fact that their livelihood during the marriage was provided by the husband. Hence, to prevent condition whereas one of the former spouses being burdened because of divorce, it is necesarry to have defined law regarding spousal maintance after divorce. This thesis discusses the law of spousal maintance in Indonesia and compares it with …

Bernard Parks Jr., And Bpj Enterprises, Inc., Order On Discovery Motions, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Myles Away From Perfect: The Potential Impact On Nil Deals Following Lsu Quarterback’S Retirement, Brian Ahle

SLU Law Journal Online

Just prior to the 2022 College Football Season, Louisiana State University Quarterback Myles Brennan decided to abruptly retire from football. Despite the unexpected finish to his career, Brennan is still going to likely retain all of the money he received in endorsements that were paid through the newly approved “NIL” deals available to collegiate athletes, as a result of a stipulation that these deals cannot be “performance-based”. In this article, Brian Ahle evaluates the potential ways in which endorsers may be able to protect their investments, while still complying with the NIL Policies that provide protections towards the athletes.

The End Of Forced Arbitration Of Sexual Violence And The Uncertain Future, Heidi M. S. Sandomir

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that forced arbitration clauses in employment contracts systematically deny justice to survivors of workplace sexual violence by shielding employers from accountability and limiting legal recourse. While the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA) represents a step forward by invalidating predispute arbitration agreements for sexual assault and harassment claims, it falls short of fully addressing the issue due to gaps in retroactive application, inconsistent court interpretations, and lack of alignment with Title VII. The note calls for broader legislative reforms to eliminate forced arbitration in all discrimination cases and ensure survivors' access to …

Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part V, David Spratt

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

After five installments, we can end our discussion of contract boilerplate. We have slashed the outdated language and emerged as a clear and contemporary legal writer. Be willing to adapt what has worked well in the past because change is the foundation of human ingenuity.

Public Client Contingency Fee Contracts As Obligation, Seth Mayer

Michigan Law Review

Contingency fee contracts predicate an attorney’s compensation on the outcome of a case. Such contracts are widely accepted when used in civil litigation by private plaintiffs who might not otherwise be able to afford legal representation. However, such arrangements are controversial when government plaintiffs like attorneys general and local governments retain private lawyers to litigate on behalf of the public in return for a percentage of any recovery from the lawsuit. Some commentators praise such public client contingency fee contracts, which have become commonplace, as an efficient way to achieve justice. Critics, however, view them as corrupt, undemocratic, and unethical. …

Elk Point Country Club Hoa V. K. H. Brown, Llc, 138 Nev. Adv. Op. 60 (Aug. 18, 2022), Alexander Provan

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

When a planned communities’ governing documents restrict real property use to residential use only, NRS 116.340(1)(a) permits a real property owner to use real property for transient commercial use so long as the governing documents of the community do not prohibit such use. Transient commercial use is the use of property, for remuneration, as transient lodging, if the term of occupancy is thirty days or less—i.e., short-term rentals. It is a reversable error to interpret bylaws and governing documents as prohibiting rentals when they use the terms “tenants” and

Todd A. Brown And Michael S. Brown As Plaintiffs In Several Consolidated Matters, Consent Order, Wesley B. Tailor

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Cloud Gaming Demystified: An Introduction To The Legal Implications Of Cloud-Based Videogames, Mitchell Longan, Gaetano Dimita, Johan David Michels, Christopher Millard

Michigan Technology Law Review

In this paper, we “demystify” cloud-based videogaming and its legal implications, in two stages. First, we describe the videogame sector; explain the basics of cloud computing and traditional videogame technologies and set out how the two converge in cloud-based videogame systems. Based on this analysis, we distinguish three separate models for cloud gaming services: (i) the “layered” model of Gaming-as-a-Service (‘GaaS’); (ii) the ‘integrated’ model of GaaS; and (iii) the ‘consumer infrastructure-as-a-service’ model. We argue that these three models are key to analyzing how intellectual property rights, contractual rights, and regulatory issues will develop in this novel environment for videogame …