{"id":1156,"date":"2003-08-08T18:56:52","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T22:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/08\/mickey-ward-sells-life-story-for-just-"},"modified":"2003-08-08T18:56:52","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T22:56:52","slug":"mickey-ward-sells-life-story-for-just-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/08\/mickey-ward-sells-life-story-for-just-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Ward Sells Life Story for just $1,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a559'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/mward.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"181\" align=\"top\"><br \/>\n        <strong>Ward claims he was duped&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\n        <\/strong> <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>\n    <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><font color=\"#990000\" size=\"+2\"><strong>Boxer Victim of &quot;Classic Bait<br \/>\n            and Switch&quot;<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Ward filed suit yesterday in Lowell Superior Court to try to void<br \/>\n        a contract he claims he was duped into signing that gave away the rights<br \/>\n        to his life story for a mere $1,000. He signed a five-page agreement<br \/>\n        and accepted a check for $1,000, believing he had been paid only to play<br \/>\n        a small role<br \/>\n        in a<br \/>\n        film about his half-brother&#8217;s life. <\/p>\n<p>But when several Hollywood producers and actor Mark Wahlberg began negotiating<br \/>\nwith Ward&#8217;s representatives to make a film based on his rise from the streets<br \/>\nof Lowell to working-class hero, they received letters ordering them to cease<br \/>\nand desist. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\">\n<p>&quot;Micky had no idea what he was<br \/>\n        signing. There was no way he could have understood the legal language<br \/>\n        in that contract&quot; according to his lawyer.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/220\/sports\/Ward_claims_he_was_duped%2B.shtml\">from<br \/>\n        the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Q<\/em><em>uestions for my law students, who just finished Contracts:<br \/>\n          Is this contract valid and enforceable? Why or why not?&nbsp;What factors<br \/>\n    will the court&#8217;s decision depend on?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ward claims he was duped&#8230;&#8230;.. Boxer Victim of &quot;Classic Bait and Switch&quot; Ward filed suit yesterday in Lowell Superior Court to try to void a contract he claims he was duped into signing that gave away the rights to his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/08\/mickey-ward-sells-life-story-for-just-1000\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}