Paul Peter Nicolai
The Growing World of Automatic Renewal Laws
With the proliferation of automatic renewal clauses in consumer contracts, new laws, generally called automatic renewal laws (ARL)...
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Paul Peter Nicolai
- May 24
- 1 min
Contract Liquidated Damages Dumped
A plaintiff sued to enforce a contract that said that if the other side did business with any of its customers in five years, the...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Terminating Agreement Snuffed Breach of Contract Claim
Delaware courts have decided that the plaintiff extinguished its breach of contract claims when it elected to terminate a merger...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
MUDDY CONTRACT MEANS YEARS IN COURT
Two parties entered into a contract that had an arbitration clause. About 10 years later they entered into a second contract which did...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
The Empty Supply Chain
Supply chains are crumbling. Manufacturers struggle to catch up with demand as the global economy recovers from the pandemic impacts on...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Oct 19, 2021
- 5 min
Infrastructure Data In Contracts
New deployments of smart devices and smart services are happening rapidly. Almost all new infrastructure should be informed by new...