Promissory Estoppel and Traditional Contract Doctrine

Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried

Rethinking Prosecution History Estoppel

Under the rule of prosecution history estoppel, patent applicants who amend their claims during the course of patent prosecution assume a significant risk: the risk that a court will later construe the changes as concessions that should be read to limit patent scope. This risk is exacerbated by strong evidentiary presumptions under which courts are to assume, unless the patentee presents suffic...

Contract Grading – Traditional Grading: A Comparison By:

The study compared the relationship of the contract plan of student evaluation and a traditional type of evaluation, for changes in knowledge and attitudes during a college course in ecological relationships. The Syracuse Environmental Awareness Test was used to measure both cognitive and affective changes. In the experimental group the contract, plan of evaluation was utilized. Subjects were e...

Managed care litigation: legal doctrine at the boundary of tort and contract.

This article summarizes the various approaches to how the law should assign responsibility in a system where health care financing and delivery are combined. Health law scholars have been debating whether conflicts in managed care between individual patient needs and preserving assets for the patient population should be resolved by tort or contract law. Until recently, the literature has been ...

Mutuality of Estoppel: Its Status in Nebraska