With non-essential businesses in many states either closed or operating in a limited capacity due to COVID-19, many companies are unable to perform existing contracts. While the basic premise under ...

In the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, health authorities and federal, state, and local governments have issued proclamations, states of emergency, recommendations, and orders affecting ...

Under Minnesota law, litigants can now officially claim temporary frustration of purpose as an affirmative defense for nonperformance of a contract—and potentially claim the doctrine as a basis for a ...

In their Commercial Division Update, Chadbourne & Parke partners George Bundy Smith and Thomas J. Hall examine the history of the frustration of purpose doctrine, which can be an incredibly powerful ...

Many of us here on earth are searching for our purpose as we go through life. For those who believe in the soul contract theory, we all have a destiny that predetermines our lives. Before we are born, ...