But it seems to me that people are overlooking the obvious answer: While many people were hoping and praying during the bleak dull days of October Term 2016 that the Supreme Court would finally get some interesting cases, nobody thought to wish that the court would ever actually decide them. [read post]

A similar approach (with different outcome) has been taken in Ribeiro v Wright, 2020 ONSC 1829, Court of Ontario, Canada. [read post]

Normative foundations of business may include the moral and not only economic value of promises, morally articulated fiduciary duties of agency (including duties of care, candor, and loyalty), and the obligation to show respect to all business participants, including a moral imperative to treat employees and customers as people who deserve dignity and due recognition – and not merely as means to the ends of making profits for others.[20] Adam Smith and his followers in contemporary… [read post]