Recently by Eric D. Wong
TKO'ing The UCC's "Knock-Out Rule"
At common law, a contract was not enforceable unless there was a meeting of the minds on all terms. But this "mirror image rule" was abandoned by the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC"), which allows parties to form a valid contract even if their proposed terms are not identical. Under UCC § 2-207 and...
Read MoreTom Just De-Friended the Ninth Circuit
This curious title invites two questions: "Who is Tom and what is de-friending?" Tom is Tom Anderson, the President of MySpace, the most used social networking website on the Internet. Tom is popular because when a new user registers for an account with MySpace, her first "friend" is automatically...
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