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It is destroying the ability of state courts to handle ordinary contract disputes.
To Mr. Liu, the case is nothing special, an ordinary contract dispute.
At its heart, the $8 million suit is a fairly ordinary contract dispute about confidentiality agreements and sales promises.
The aspect of the situation bears no resemblance to that of an ordinary contract for the sale of merchandise in the course of an ordinary business.
The United States Supreme Court purported to apply "ordinary contract principles" in its decision reversing the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in M&G Polymers USA v. Tackett.
This Article documents the various errors of the Supreme Court in applying "ordinary contract principles". In doing so, the Article suggests how courts should proceed in contract cases like M&G.
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This Essay hypothesizes that courts possess a fairly well-developed schema of the fiduciary role, but have not developed a comparable schema for ordinary contracting parties.
Justice Kennedy wrote the decision in Circuit City Stores v. Adams, No. 99-1379, which resolved a dispute over whether the Federal Arbitration Act applies to ordinary contracts of employment.
It only remains to determine whether the contracts in the case at bar are the ordinary contracts of merchants for the manufacture and sale of marketable commodities or contracts for labor, skill, and materials, and this is not a difficult task.
If the proposition, as thus laid down in the cases cited, is sound in regard to the ordinary contracts of private individuals, how much more should it be observed where the attempt is to annul the grants, the patents, and other solemn evidences of title emanating from the government of the United States under its official seal.
Therefore it may be held hereafter that ordinary contracts for the sale of stocks on margin are not legitimate transactions, and it would not be safe for us to take the words in any other than their literal meaning, or to assume in advance of a decision that they will be taken in a narrow sense.
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