Laying Down the Law with Billy DeClercq, Esq.

Schrödinger's Truck, nuts‽

Drop Your Lodestar |City of Riverside v Rivera (1986) 477 US 561

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Equi-TEE | Geddes v Mill Valley Country Club 751 N.E. 2d 1150 (Ill. 2001)

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Mining for Gold | Int'l Union Mine Workers v Bagwell, 512 US 821 (1994)

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Artificial Incompetence | S.D.N.Y. v. Schwartz & LoDuca

Gimme More: Liquidated Damages | Ashcraft & Gerel v Coady

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Hot RODs | Grimshaw V FoMoCo (119 Cal.App.3d 757, 174 Cal.Rptr. 348)

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Texas Cattle Devil |Buck v. Morrow, 2 Tex. Civ. App. 361, 21 S.W. 398 (Tex. Civ. App. 1893)

Soybean Schism | Decatur Cty. AG-Services, Inc. v. Young

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Reasonable Swooner Standard

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We Live In The Weeds (Trinity Church in Bos. v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co. )

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Apprently, you CAN mess with Texas. (United States v Fifty Acres of Land)

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Burros and Bedbugs (Hatahley v. U.s.)

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Promissory Restitution

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Quasi-Contract & Unjust Enrichment

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Wood v Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon

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Consideration

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Broken Crankshaft (Hadley v. Baxendale)

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Introduction to (Drunk) Contract Law: Lucy v. Zehmer

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Flying Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Eisenberg v Flying Tiger Line Inc.)

Law and Comedy featuring Kelli Johnson, Kristen Denning and Henry David.

Tennessee Two-Step (Putnam v Shoaf)

Law and Comedy featuring Christina Moore, Artoun Nazareth and Stephen C. James

The Only Ship that Doesn’t Sail (Fenwick v Unemployment Compensation Committee)

Law and Comedy featuring Henry David and Pia Smith

Basia, The Brats and Nina Zagat

Law and Comedy featuring Jay Singh, Pia Smith, and Griffin Taylor.

Nobody Foresees Helen Palsgraf (v Long Island Railroad)

Law and Comedy featuring Lauren Michaels and Pia Smith.

Light Up a Ballgame (Shlensky v Wrigley)

Law and Comedy featuring Christina Moore, Artoun Nazareth and Rob Scerbo

Everybody Knows what "Alter Ego" Means (Sea-Land Services v Pepper Source)

Law and Comedy featuring Courtney Karwhal, Curtis Retherford and Griffin Taylor.

Deadly New York Cabs (Walkovsky v Carlton)

Law and Comedy featuring Greenberry Lucas, Lauren Michaels, and Curtis Retherford.

WTF is "Punctilio"? (Meinhard v Salmon)

Law and Comedy featuring Henry David, Stephen C. James and Artoun Nazareth

Play Ball - or Duck it? (Manning v Grimsley)

Law and Comedy featuring Doug Morency, Jack Mosshammer, Gary Pia, and Pia Smith.

Honey I Blew Up the Car! Live @ The Ledge (Hoover v Sun Oil Co.)

LIVE Law and Comedy featuring Chris Compton, Stephen C. James and Hans Summers.