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Topic: Remedies, Damages, Foreseeability

Court of Exchequer 1854 (England)

Case Link: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/45164

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Topic: Specific Performance

Court of Chancery of New Jersey, 1907

Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/curtice-bros-co-v-catts

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Topic: Moral Obligation

Supreme Court of Massachusetts 1825

Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman

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Learn about an oil company swindling a landowner out of their well.

Supreme Court of North Carolina 1946

1:34 – Case start

https://casetext.com/case/stonestreet-v-oil-co

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Learn about more about consideration and a man who gave false hopes to his brother's widow.

Supreme Court of Alabama 1845

1:34 - Case start

https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/2227

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirksey_v._Kirksey

This paper gives (a lot) more back story: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=899002

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This lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts.

Topic: Remedies

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Topics: Contract Remedies

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1973

Damages Spectrum:

Restitution <---> Reliance <---> Expectation

Restitution Damages:

The $622 she paid for surgery

Expectation Damages:

Difference between her messed up nose and "beautiful" nose 

+ Pain and suffering for third surgery 

+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery 

+ Difference between her earnings with messed up nose and earnings she would have had with "beautiful" nose

Reliance Damages:

Difference between her messed up nose and pre-surgery nose

+ Pain and suffering for first two surgeries

+ Any hospital expenses for first two surgeries

+ Pain and suffering for third surgery

+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery

+ Lost earnings due to messed up nose

+ The $622 she paid for surgery 

Coursera Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/sullivan-v-o-connor-nose-job-kjokM?authMode=login

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Topic: Remedies

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