Legal precedent comes from court decisions where judges are asked to interpret the law, and once a court rules on an issue, legal precedent becomes the law. This means that legal precedent and ...

A family law ruling filed last week by the Maryland Supreme Court confirmed marital settlement agreements are contracts, but the decision may ultimately have more of an impact on contract law and ...

Ethan Leib, Professor at Fordham Law School, argues that that New York courts mistakenly apply the tort concept of “proximate cause” to contract law and calls upon the New York Court of Appeals to ...