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Here is a surprising fact about contracts. Many contracts contain terms that the contract-writer knows are unenforceable. They put these terms in the contract to deter non-lawyers from suing.Any contract making you a slave is unenforceable. You don’t have to do anything other than walk away from such a contract. The contract holder might bluster and threaten, but he knows he can’t win in court.It doesn’t matter if an unenforceable contract remains in effect. My brother-in-law, for instance, owns a house whose purchase contract included language forbidding him from selling to minorities. These hateful covenants have been in place in his town since the 1950s. They remain in force, but are unenforceable. It’s expensive to enter court proceedings to make them go away, and cheap to ignore them.

This is a signature page:The sketchiest contract I was ever forced to sign what was the Little Rock School District’s teachers’ contract. I hesitate to name the district, because I suspect this isn’t uncommon, BUT:I was handed a signature page, like the one above. And no contract. At the top of the page it said something along the lines of “I agree to be bound by the contract that the union has so selflessly negotiated on my behalf.” Again, we were told we were not allowed to see it unless we joined the union. Multiple teachers told me they were threatened every year not to show the contract to anyone, including the teachers who were bound by it.Why did I sign it? Because they gave it to us 3/4 of the way through the year! It was a retroactive contract! I had two kids and a pregnant wife. We had sacrificed to work in education, had chosen to live in squalor for the greater good, and so needed the paycheck. Plus I had hundreds of students counting on me.I was told that I had to pledge to obey the contract, but couldn’t know what was in there. It had all my rights and responsibilities in it. But I couldn’t see it, nor could any of the signatures that preceded mine. The fact that I was hired at the significant level of those with a master's who had been principals before, yet was only offered $40,000—that was supposedly explained in there. The reason why that $40,000 manifested as a net income of $18,000 was in there. The reason my room had no decorations, no computer, no phone, 325 students, and fewer than 20 textbooks—all would be revealed—just not to me because I didn’t join the mob.That’s right, I said it. I’ve bought used cars, leased cars, homes, worked in corporate law, even bought a timeshare, and I’ve never dealt with a contract-situation as icky as the teachers’ union contract. If someone ever hands you a signature page with no contract, I hope a migraine-inducing klaxon alarm goes off in your head and red flags drop from the ceiling.

Parler signed contracts with Apple, Google, and Amazon.Parler did not operate within the requirements of the contracts they signed.The other parties terminated the contracts.That’s it. It’s really that simple.If Parler thinks the other parties did not hold up their end of the contract, they can sue and should stand to get a very handsome payoff if they can prove their case.If.