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George Mason School of Law

George Mason School of Law. Contracts II Specific Performance F.H. Buckley fbuckley@gmu.edu. When might damages not suffice?. Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser. When do damages not suffice?. Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser Land: Lucy v. Zehmer.

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George Mason School of Law

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  1. George Mason School of Law Contracts II Specific Performance F.H. Buckley fbuckley@gmu.edu

  2. When might damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser

  3. When do damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser • Land: Lucy v. Zehmer “Tis the only thing worth fighting for, worth dying for”

  4. When do damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser • Heirlooms The Pusey Horn

  5. When do damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser • Beyond that? Sedmak 1978 Corvette Pace Car

  6. When do damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser • Beyond that? Sedmak • Deposit paid, sale at MSRP with options • After the changes, dealer to provide a “contract”

  7. When do damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser • Beyond that? Sedmak • Was there a contract?

  8. When do damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser • Beyond that? Sedmak • Was there a contract? • Statute of Frauds 8

  9. When do damages not suffice? • Things of idiosyncratic value to a purchaser • Beyond that? Sedmak • Specific Performance • UCC § 2-716(1): “unique goods or in other proper circumstances” • Comment 1

  10. When do damages not suffice? • Why “proper circumstances” in Sedmak?

  11. When do damages not suffice? • Why “proper circumstances” in Sedmak? • Limited production and availability problems • Rise in price? • Why not monetary damages for this? 11

  12. When do damages not suffice?: Klein v. Pepsico The Law School’s Gulfstream G-II The “Efficient Breach”

  13. When do damages not suffice? • Klein v. Pepsico Donald Kendall pours Nikita Krushschev a pepsi as Richard Nixon observes, 1959

  14. When do damages not suffice? • Klein v. Pepsico • Was the plane unique? • What about the price increase?

  15. When do damages not suffice? • Klein v. Pepsico • Was the plane unique? • What about the price increase? • Could money damages make the Π whole with respect to the price increase?

  16. When do damages not suffice? • Klein v. Pepsico • Was the plane unique? • What about the price increase? • Could money damages make the Π whole with respect to the price increase? • Would they make him whole under UCC §§ 2-712, 2-715?

  17. When do damages not suffice? • Klein v. Pepsico • Was the plane unique? • What about the price increase? • Who bears the risk of a cover? Is it solely the buyer? • Does the seller have an incentive to “cover”?

  18. When do damages not suffice? • Klein v. Pepsico • Was the plane unique? • What about the price increase? • Who bears the risk of a cover? Is it solely the buyer? • Does the seller have an incentive to “cover”? • Do damages systematically undercompensate? • The American rule of costs

  19. When do damages not suffice? • Klein v. Pepsico • Was the plane unique? • What about the price increase? • Who bears the risk of a cover? Is it solely the buyer? • Does the seller have an incentive to “cover”? • Do damages systematically undercompensate? • Does that explain why SP is sought? • Or denied?

  20. When do damages not suffice? • Triple A Baseball Club The Maine Phillies

  21. When do damages not suffice? • Triple A Baseball Club Doug Jones, 303 saves in the majors

  22. When do damages not suffice? • Monetary Specific Performance: • Bander v. Grossman Aston Martin DB-5

  23. When do damages not suffice? • Monetary Specific Performance: Bander v. Grossman • Purchase price of $40,000 • Price at breach of $60,000 • Resale for $225,000 • Price at trial of $80,000 Aston Martin DB-5

  24. When do damages not suffice? • Monetary Specific Performance: Bander v. Grossman • Purchase price of $40,000 • Price at breach of $60,000 • Resale for $225,000 • Price at trial of $80,000 • Damages of $20,000 awarded Aston Martin DB-5

  25. When do damages not suffice? • Marketing Contracts: Playgirl Centerfold Winner Sen. Scott Brown (R. MA)

  26. When do damages not suffice? • Marketing Contracts: Playgirl • Is it indeed the case that “Playgirl alone and uniquely provides an advertising audience composed of young, malleable and affluent females”?

  27. When do damages not suffice? • Marketing Contracts: Playgirl • Is it indeed the case that “Playgirl alone and uniquely provides an advertising audience composed of young, malleable and affluent females”? • The Court: We think there are a lot of other magazines that cater to this market

  28. When might damages suffice? • When damages as wholly compensatory, SP might overcompensate • Jacob and Youngs v. Kent: what result if SP had been available?

  29. When might damages suffice? • When damages as wholly compensatory, SP might overcompensate • Costs of judicial supervision of performance

  30. When might damages suffice? • When damages as wholly compensatory, SP might overcompensate • Costs of judicial supervision of performance • Interference with liberty interests

  31. When do damages not suffice? • Personal Services http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXw9olWJ0Ak Anita Baker

  32. When do damages not suffice? • Personal Services • No SP, no injunction • Damages remedy against Warner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXw9olWJ0Ak

  33. George Mason School of Law Contracts II Reliance Damages F.H. Buckley fbuckley@gmu.edu

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