Contract Law

Lights, Camera, Contracts: The Legal Side of Reality TV

December 6, 2024

Watching reality TV has low stakes, but making it on a reality TV show is a competitive process. However, in the slim chance someone does make it on a show, the participant will be asked to sign a legally binding contract. [...]

Taunted by the Haunted: The Extreme Horror Attraction that Continues to Evade Legal Liability

October 29, 2021

Reaching the Tennessee State Senate: 200,000 Signatures Required. Approximately 170 thousand signatures have been gathered on Change.org in an attempt to have an extreme scare attraction in Tennessee shut down. McKamey Manor is an experience offered in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama that boasts it is “not your standard . . . haunted house.” The creator of the petition to shut down the house, Frankie Towery, describes the Manor as “a torture chamber under disguise,” [...]

Hot for Contracts: How Van Halen Illustrates the Importance of Reading a Contract

October 9, 2020

Surrounding the word “contract” is an air of importance and gravity. Indeed, one does not need a lawyer to understand that contracts carry serious legal weight, and accordingly, potentially severe consequences for their breach. However, contrary to popular belief, these solemn covenants are not limited to complex business arrangements between sophisticated executives. Contracts—and their consequences—govern virtually every aspect of our daily lives in one form or another. With [...]

As the Super Bowl nears, cities face relocation fears

February 1, 2016

With the recent St. Louis Rams football team moving to Los Angeles, and claiming the “State of the Art” Clause to get out of their contract with the city of St. Louis, questions arise regarding the conscionability and legality of such clauses in permitting professional football teams to just up and leave a city. [...]