Reference no: EM131482695

Yarde Metals, Inc., owned six season tickets to New England Patriots football games. Gillette Stadium, where the games are played, had insufficient men’s restrooms in use for football games at that time, which was the subject of numerous newspaper columns. On October 13, 2002, a guest of Yarde Metals, Mikel LaCroix, along with others, used available women’s restrooms to answer the call of nature. As LaCroix left the restroom, however, he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. The Patriots organization terminated all six of Yarde’s season ticket privileges, incorrectly giving as a reason that LaCroix was ejected “for throwing bottles in the seating section.” Yarde sued, contending that “by terminating the plaintiff’s season tickets for 2002 and for the future arbitrarily, without cause and based on false information,” the Patriots had violated the implicit covenant of good faith and fair dealing of the season tickets contract. The back of each Patriots ticket states: This ticket and all season tickets are revocable licenses. The Patriots reserve the right to revoke such licenses, in their sole discretion, at any time and for any reason. How would you decide this case? [Yarde Metals, Inc. v. New England Patriots Ltd., 834 N.E.2d 1233 (Mass. App.)]