#Palantir #GeoGroup #CoreCivic seeing record #profits as they expand #contracts w #ICE. Palantir building a $30M ICE #database to accelerate #deportations, while private prison firms boast of “unprecedented growth” in #detention capacity, including exploring sites on #US #military bases. #trump #immigration machine imassive #profit center for #tech #prison #contractors, embedding corporate incentives in2 expansion of detention, #surveillance. #Immigrants are the test case https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/10/trump-immigration-companies-profit
Companies aiding Trump’s immigration crackdown see ‘extraordinary’ revenues

Palantir, Geo Group and CoreCivic, cogs in president’s enormous detention and deportation machinery, report ‘unprecedented growth’

The Guardian

The new Top Tens are out. Last week’s bust-out hit on defining contract is now sandwiched between a paper about LLMs and one about stablecoins. The righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of AI and the tyranny of crypto.

#law #contracts #academia #scholarship #AI #LLMs #Crypto

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/08/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-august-19-2025.html

The story of how I developed my contract with myself and its importance to me. Though it isn't easy to do, I recommend you develop your own.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2023/12/my-contract

#LifeLessons #contracts #visualizations

I went on an Alaskan cruise, and I brought back a gift — the waiver and release that we had to sign before we could go on a rafting excursion. Can you spot the unenforceable provisions?

#law #contracts #waivers #Travel

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/08/a-typical-waiver-form-and-relevant-related-conduct.html

Today’s post is about a case you can use to teach the outer reaches of contractual consent, if you don’t mind introducing a bit of agency law into your contracts course. Hat tip to amicus author @brettfrischmann.bsky.social

#law #contracts #litigation #arbitration #education #datamining

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/08/district-court-denies-education-technology-companys-motion-to-compel-arbitration.html

#Tax experts consulted by NYT said that not having to pay $5B in federal income #taxes was substantial & notable for a company that has relied on contracts with the #US #government to an unusual degree. #SpaceX works closely with the #Pentagon, #NASA & other agencies, giving it a vital role in #NationalSecurity. In 2020, #federal #contracts generated almost 84% of the rocket maker’s revenue, acc/to the documents, a figure not previously reported.

#law #Trump #Musk #billionaires #corporations

#Billionaires #prevail #SpaceX Gets #Billions From the #Government. It Gives Little to #Nothing Back in #Taxes. #ElonMusk #rocket company, SpaceX, has become hugely successful. It’s one of the world’s most valuable private companies and the linchpin to Musk’s plan to #colonize #Mars. But little is known about its #finances Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on #federal #contracts but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income taxes, according 2 internal company documents.

Today’s Friday Frivolity provides a perhaps useful hypo on joke offers: the case of the man who fell for an April Fools prank and got the letters KRUD tattooed on his forehead.

#law #contracts #Television #teaching #AprilFools

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/08/plaintiff-wins-510000-claim-after-falling-for-april-fools-prank.html