Justice Sotomayor's alleged use of Court staff to promote her book tours raises additional concerns regarding the need for an ethics code for SCOTUS. Don't publishers have staff that can arrange readings for high-profile authors? #law#contracts#SCOTUS#ethics
What do Samford, Villanova, Belmont, Mississippi College, Cal Western, and Lincoln Memorial have in common? All are hiring in contracts or contracts-related fields!
At first, I didn’t like type hints in #Python, but we decided to give it a go since our codebase really exploded in the last couple of years. All I can say now is we should have done it earlier. I still find it unbealivable that we discovered so many small bugs that went unnoticed all these years.
Static type #checkers do help find #bugs - even ones that would be nasty to try to debug after hitting them in use.
But you can also use them to enforce #contracts, if you prefer that to duck typing (not built-in). A lot of Pythonistas will hold their nose at that, but it can be useful to "die loudly and early" when someone else passes the wrong #types to your #function.
The passengers on the OceanGate submersible signed an exculpatory agreement that disclosed the very risks that killed them. Can their families nonetheless sue? Does it matter? It is not clear that the entity will survive this catastrophe, nor does it seem likely that the victims' survivors will be in need a cash. It is, however, an opportunity to consider the public policy behind such exculpatory agreements.
One reason I love teaching #telecom#law is that it provides a pretty durable base for understanding the basic debates underlying the endlessly proliferating app-layer Internet fights. The #Reddit API and #Meta-#Fediverse fights are just old-school interop/interconnection competition/standardization/network-effects fights at heart, and the inevitable law/policy interventions are pretty predictable.
@mastodonmigration@blakereid you mean from a #copyright perspective? Or from a #contracts perspective? TLDR: #fediverse users who have not agreed to Meta TOS are not bound by them and have the right to litigate if they feel their content has been used by Meta in a way that would legally require consent (eg using their content in marketing materials) . But the boundaries of those protections are largely untested at this point.
The YouTube channel Legal Eagle has done an analysis (based on US law) of the contract Ariel signs in The Little Mermaid.
Some of the gems include: "I was an extremely litigious five year old ... don't take parenting advice from Disney movies ... Yes, yes. Lawyers are more powerful than a magic sea witch ... King Triton [uses] a novation ... It is illegal to own a human being, or mermaid, as of 1837 in Denmark ... And when the camera zooms in on the fine print, it's written in some unintelligible language - I mean, even more unintelligible than a normal legal contract" - several "weasel outs" are discussed.
#Lindell is motivated to add to his L column it seems. Considering he wrote the rules to have the contest subject to #arbitration seems odd to then claim the arbitrator exceeded authority. Also seems odd that Lindell didn't have to plead with more particularity. #law#lawfedi#litigation#contracts