And they say Jerry Jones is bad?!?!

[kapolani]

Hill is one of 125 season ticket holders who asked to be released from multiyear contracts and were sued by the Commanders in the past five years. The Washington Post interviewed about two dozen of them. Most said that they were victims of the economic downturn, having lost a job or experiencing some other financial hardship.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203887.html?hpid=topnews

 

[Rogah]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203887.html?hpid=topnews

This is nothing new, and I remember the Buccaneers having a similar incident around last year. I have no problem with the Commanders suing people to enforce a contract, but I do have a problem with them double-dipping.

In otherwords, if someone bails on a contract, the Commanders sue them for the money - then turn around and sell the tickets to someone else. So they get the money from selling the tickets plus the money from the lawsuit. AFAIK, legally speaking, if the Commanders are able to mitigate their damages then that helps take the burden off the defendant. Also, legally speaking, the Commanders have the responsibility to try and mitigate their damages (as mentioned in the article with the "landlord" example).

Since the entire basis of one of the lawsuits (involving Atlantic Transportation) mentioned in that article is that exact principle, it will be interesting to see the verdict.