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Re: Why do we protect expectation interest in contracts?

Post by Sogui » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:05 am

betasteve wrote: Since we are and always will be an adversarial system, I see this as a major flaw. I mean now we are looking at fact-intensive discovery into reliance and possibly additional litigation as to whether reliance may have been in bad faith. Sorry here, bro, but the systemic costs outweigh the minuscule benefits.
That's part of what that UT economic study said. I don't deny that it would turn efficient decisions into inefficient ones once all the legal system costs are rolled in. But this can lead to new avenues of discussion.

What about a special arbitration group for major corporations? Companies would be able to submit their private/confidential expenses and the "clearinghouse" arbitration group would come to a decision about what the appropriate reliance damages would be.

Even without going down that road, there are times when reliance is much easier to calculate than expectation. That's supposed to be the norm actually. Combine that with the fact that "fairness/equity/intent of the parties" seems to indicate that reliance was the parties' preference for compensation upon breach and you start seeing a significant area of the law that is in need of reform.

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Re: Why do we protect expectation interest in contracts?

Post by Sogui » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:44 pm

@Beta, I thought judges were getting their fair share of work as it is. It's a fair point but it would be hard to feel sorry for corporations who enter a voluntary arbitration agreement who feel slighted if they don't get their day in court.

@TLS,
Eh I'm getting "outing" threats from people at my school, it's sad really. If I keep posting it won't be for a while, and won't be on this account. /wave

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Re: Why do we protect expectation interest in contracts?

Post by JazzOne » Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:33 pm

Sogui wrote:@Beta, I thought judges were getting their fair share of work as it is. It's a fair point but it would be hard to feel sorry for corporations who enter a voluntary arbitration agreement who feel slighted if they don't get their day in court.

@TLS,
Eh I'm getting "outing" threats from people at my school, it's sad really. If I keep posting it won't be for a while, and won't be on this account. /wave
What a bunch of douchebags. Sorry.

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