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 ...

With support from the W. M. Keck Foundation, a Stevens–Yale collaboration is now transforming graviton detection from a ...

In the short term, performance may be relieved by government orders like the one Gov. Roy Cooper recently signed including lease enforcement restrictions. These orders provide some temporary relief, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – California’s highest court handed gun manufacturers a setback in their fight against what they called an “impossible” state requirement to place microstamps on bullet casings, ...

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 ...

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When state law and federal law conflict, the Constitution’s supremacy clause provides that federal law displaces, or pre-empts, state law. Pre-emption issues permeate prescription-drug safety ...

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The 70-year-old German painter Gerhard Richter is one of those artists whose exhibitions prompt more discussion about the rationale behind the work than what the art looks like. Richter, you see, ...