Recent content by Paul Schneiter

I didn't intend for my statement re. the assailability of contracts to be of use to me. I simply wanted to point out that a contract is not axiomatically a beneficial instrument for either side of a legal argument.

Is a contract ever open to challenge?

I never said the publisher owes me money. I did say that a reduction in the $8,000 marketing fee may be justified.

Your analysis makes sense. I should not have suggested that the publisher's error invalidated the contract. But I also suggested that the error may justify a reduction in the $8,000 marketing fee. If you signed a sales contract with a new car dealer and the car arrived with a damaged front...

I signed a contract to have a publisher publish my book. I also signed a contract to have the publisher market the book. When the book was published and announced to hundreds of outlets (bookstores, libraries, newspapers, etc.) it was found to contain an egregious error: five pages had been...