Even if a contract does not have a force majeure clause, a party’s obligation to perform may still be discharged under the doctrine of impossibility. The doctrine of impossibility refers to situations ...

In his Commercial Division Update, Thomas J. Hall writes: The narrowness of the doctrines of impossibility and frustration of purpose—and their questionable utility for litigators—underscores the ...

We previously wrote about the contract defenses that businesses may rely on when an epidemic impairs contractual performance, and we recently analyzed force majeure clauses under California, Colorado, ...

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Richard Dodge & Shauna Guner of the Dentons law firm had a very interesting short piece on this, which they kindly agreed to let me repost: As the coronavirus continues to spread in the United States, ...

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“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” — adapted from “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns First you have to have a plan. Then, as you may have noticed, things don’t always go as planned. What ...