NYT > PoliticsThe No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington's Reflecting Pool Blue
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-contract.html
NYT > Home PageThe No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington's Reflecting Pool Blue
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-contract.html
KProfsBlogOne Episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm" provides a great introduction to implied contracts and formation issues. It should be assigned viewing in every contracts course, except that it is, of course, totally inappropriate for the classroom.
Still, I think there needs to be a contracts book based on hypos from “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” — the Larry David Course on Contracts
Just as the Supreme Court is finally putting some limits on who can be compelled into mandatory arbitration, the SEC is now allowing companies to force shareholders into that forum. SpaceX may lead us into a new era free from shareholder class actions.
#law #contracts #SEC #arbitration #SpaceX
https://www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/05/a-new-expansion-of-arbitration/
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What do you get when you cross $5 million with a young man with access to gambling apps? Brendan Sorsby is just one victim of prediction markets, which are corrupt markets, bad for individuals, and a threat to national security that no ballroom can fix.
Milo DideTell #CEOs: End #contracts with #ICE!
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Join Robert Reich & Tell CEOs: End contracts with ICE!
Corporations like AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon, Microsoft, and Palantir are profiting directly from contracts with DHS and ICE. These companies have enjoyed massive tax breaks under Trump's corporate tax law, while their CEOs personally benefited. Those windfalls were not invested in workers or the companies' surrounding communities. Instead, billions were poured into stock buybacks, executive compensation, and contracts that help sustain ICE's enforcement machinery. We, the American people, are paying twice: once through lost public revenue, and again through the harm inflicted on our communities. Meanwhile, ICE enforcement has run off the rails. Across the country, we've seen aggressive raids, pervasive surveillance, and deaths in custody. Two citizens were killed during recent ICE operations in Minneapolis, and nationwide, deaths in ICE detention have reached the highest levels in decades. We are making clear to corporate CEOs that this violence is enabled by the private companies that supply ICE with the tools it relies on every day. The bloodshed in the streets and the abuse inside overcrowded detention centers are inseparable from the corporate contracts that make ICE's operations possible. Please sign the petition now to demand that major corporate CEOs end their collaboration with ICE.
Tell #CEOs: End #contracts with #ICE!
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Join Robert Reich & Tell CEOs: End contracts with ICE!
Corporations like AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon, Microsoft, and Palantir are profiting directly from contracts with DHS and ICE. These companies have enjoyed massive tax breaks under Trump's corporate tax law, while their CEOs personally benefited. Those windfalls were not invested in workers or the companies' surrounding communities. Instead, billions were poured into stock buybacks, executive compensation, and contracts that help sustain ICE's enforcement machinery. We, the American people, are paying twice: once through lost public revenue, and again through the harm inflicted on our communities. Meanwhile, ICE enforcement has run off the rails. Across the country, we've seen aggressive raids, pervasive surveillance, and deaths in custody. Two citizens were killed during recent ICE operations in Minneapolis, and nationwide, deaths in ICE detention have reached the highest levels in decades. We are making clear to corporate CEOs that this violence is enabled by the private companies that supply ICE with the tools it relies on every day. The bloodshed in the streets and the abuse inside overcrowded detention centers are inseparable from the corporate contracts that make ICE's operations possible. Please sign the petition now to demand that major corporate CEOs end their collaboration with ICE.
Just one Tuesday tip this week, but it’s a good one! Brian Bix @brianbix.bsky.social and Francesco Parisi on “Punishment and Its Relative Absence in Contract Law”
#law #contracts #scholarship #academia
https://www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/05/tuesday-tips-new-scholarship-from-ssrn-for-the-week-of-may-4th/
