Topic: Remedies, Damages, Foreseeability
Court of Exchequer 1854 (England)
Case Link: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/45164
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Topic: Specific Performance
Court of Chancery of New Jersey, 1907
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/curtice-bros-co-v-catts
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of Massachusetts 1825
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman
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Learn about an oil company swindling a landowner out of their well.
Supreme Court of North Carolina 1946
1:34 – Case start
https://casetext.com/case/stonestreet-v-oil-co
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Learn about more about consideration and a man who gave false hopes to his brother's widow.
Supreme Court of Alabama 1845
1:34 - Case start
https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/2227
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirksey_v._Kirksey
This paper gives (a lot) more back story: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=899002
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This lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts.
Topic: Remedies
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Topics: Contract Remedies
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1973
Damages Spectrum:
Restitution <---> Reliance <---> Expectation
Restitution Damages:
The $622 she paid for surgery
Expectation Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and "beautiful" nose
+ Pain and suffering for third surgery
+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery
+ Difference between her earnings with messed up nose and earnings she would have had with "beautiful" nose
Reliance Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and pre-surgery nose
+ Pain and suffering for first two surgeries
+ Any hospital expenses for first two surgeries
+ Pain and suffering for third surgery
+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery
+ Lost earnings due to messed up nose
+ The $622 she paid for surgery
Coursera Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/sullivan-v-o-connor-nose-job-kjokM?authMode=login
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This topic comes as a special request from one of our listeners.
Topic: Remedies
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Court of Appeals of Alabama, 1935
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/webb-v-mcgowin-1
Second Restatement §86: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/2718
Professor Ian Ayres Video Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/mills-v-wyman-moral-obligation-webb-v-mcgowin-rescuers-recompense-DkjYX
Commentary on Webb v McGowin, Harrington v Taylor, and Mills v Wyman: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.faulknerlawreview.org/article/16603.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CTeGX6uUIoKOygTS-ZbwCQ&scisig=AAGBfm2HsO5RJCYhdtzOZO8hfIosMyrp3Q&nossl=1&oi=scholarr
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1945
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/harrington-v-taylor-2
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of Utah, 1961
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/manwill-v-oyler
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We are moving from the study of consideration onto a new topic called Moral Obligation.
If you promise to pay someone for something they gave you in the past, will courts enforce that promise?
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Court of Appeals of Washington, 1982
Case link: https://casetext.com/case/omni-group-v-seattle-first-natl-bank
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Court of Appeals of New York, 1917
Case link: https://casetext.com/case/wood-v-duff-gordon
Wikipedia entry on the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_v._Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon
Wikipedia bio on Lady Duff-Gordon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1936
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mcmichael-v-price
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1913
https://cite.case.law/ky/156/6/
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What happens when one party promises to fulfill their side only "if they feel like it"?
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Learn about a garbage man who bit off more than he could chew.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1974
https://casetext.com/case/angel-v-murray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_v._Murray
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Learn about a fishing trip that turned into a hold up.
US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1902
1:00 – Case start
http://madisonian.net/downloads/contracts/alaska.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Packers'_Association
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