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Is the A-Rod lawsuit frivolous?

Yesterday evening, lawyers for the  New York Yankees’ star baseball player Alex Rodriguez filed two complaints in New York State court, one against a local hospital and the team doctor of the Yankees baseball club, and another against Major League Baseball and … Continue reading

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A contract is a bet …

Charles Fried, a law professor at Harvard, famously argued that a contract is a promise. We at prior probability, however, say that a contract is more like a bet. Consider the relation between sports contracts in baseball and hitting success. … Continue reading

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