{"id":3484,"date":"2014-04-23T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2014-04-22T13:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T18:25:26","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Dec. 17, 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricoinc.com\">Rico Industries<\/a> entered into an agreement with TLC Group Inc.,\u00a0in which TLC would serve as Rico\u2019s exclusive sales representative to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\">Wal-Mart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rico, an Illinois corporation that specializes in production of novelty and sports-affiliated merchandise, entered into the agreement, specifying\u00a0that any change, cancellation or termination of the agreement must be mutually agreed by both TLC and Rico in writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rico claimed that it was not represented by an attorney during the negotiations and drafting of the contract.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Further, Rico claimed that in the drafting of the contract, the entire length of which was under one page, \u00a0there were no other conditions in which the contract could be terminated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/#more-3484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec. 17, 2007, Rico Industries entered into an agreement with TLC Group Inc.,\u00a0in which TLC would serve as Rico\u2019s exclusive sales representative to Wal-Mart. Rico, an Illinois corporation that specializes in production of novelty and sports-affiliated merchandise, entered into the agreement, specifying\u00a0that any change, cancellation or termination of the agreement must be mutually agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[134,133,22,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-litigation","category-contract-litigation","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-negotiations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Dec. 17, 2007, Rico Industries entered into an agreement with TLC Group Inc.,\u00a0in which TLC would serve as Rico\u2019s exclusive sales representative to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"On Dec. 17, 2007, Rico Industries entered into an agreement with TLC Group Inc.,\u00a0in which TLC would serve as Rico\u2019s exclusive sales representative to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"On Dec. 17, 2007, Rico Industries entered into an agreement with TLC Group Inc.,\u00a0in which TLC would serve as Rico\u2019s exclusive sales representative to","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","twitter_description":"On Dec. 17, 2007, Rico Industries entered into an agreement with TLC Group Inc.,\u00a0in which TLC would serve as Rico\u2019s exclusive sales representative to","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"headline":"Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy","datePublished":"2014-04-23T15:00:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/"},"wordCount":642,"articleSection":["Commercial Litigation","Contract Litigation","Illinois Civil Procedure","Negotiations"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/","name":"Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-04-23T15:00:45+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"description":"On Dec. 17, 2007, Rico Industries entered into an agreement with TLC Group Inc.,\u00a0in which TLC would serve as Rico\u2019s exclusive sales representative to","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-restates-perpetual-contract-illinois-public-policy\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Illinois Appellate Court Restates That a Perpetual Contract is Against Illinois Public Policy"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Chicago Illinois Accident Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H0vI-Uc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3576,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}