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 ...

“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 ...

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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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Non-performance of an obligation due to an unforeseen event did not fully develop until trade began to flourish in the medieval Mediterranean world as a legally acceptable excuse. The chasm or ...

As the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus and its domino effect on the economy intensifies, contractual parties have started to consider the need to modify or terminate their existing contracts.