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Coronavirus & Contracts: How the Coronavirus May Trigger Force Majeure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Ahmer A. Qureshi
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 133 - 136
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2020

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References

1 Locations with Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Global Map, Ctrs. for Disease Control and Prevention (Mar. 11, 2020), https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/locations-confirmed-cases.html.

2 Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 262-263 (Am. Law Inst. 1981).

3 See Janice Ryan, Understanding Force Majeure Clauses, Venable (Feb. 2011), https://www.venable.com/insights/publications/2011/02/understanding-force-majeure-clauses.

4 See Timothy Murray, Drafting Advice: Avoiding Disastrous Force Majeure Clauses, LexisNexis (Feb. 28, 2018), https://www.lexisnexis.com/lexis-practice-advisor/the-journal/b/lpa/posts/drafting-advice-avoiding-disastrous-force-majeure-clauses; Ryan, supra note 3.

5 Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 261 (Am. Law Inst. 1981) (emphasis added).

6 Murray, supra note 4.

7 Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 261 cmt. d (Am. Law Inst. 1981).

8 Id.

9 Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Allied-Gen. Nuclear Services, 731 F. Supp. 850, 855 (N.D. Ill. 1990).

10 Murray, supra note 4.

11 Murray, supra note 4.

12 US: When Is Force Majeure Really Force Majeure?, Baker McKenzie (Mar. 5, 2020), https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/publications/2020/03/when-is-force-majeure-really-force-majeure.

13 Id.

14 See Coronavirus and Force Majeure Contract Clauses, Greenberg Traurig (Mar. 3, 2020), https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2020/3/coronavirus-and-force-majeure-contract-clauses. See also Ryan, supra note 3.

15 Anton Ware et. al., What to Do When You Receive a Coronavirus-Related Force Majeure Notice, Arnold & Porter (Mar. 4, 2020), https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/publications/2020/03/what-to-do-when-you-receive-acoronavirus.

16 Id.

17 Timeline: How the new coronavirus spread, Al Jazeera (Mar. 12, 2020), https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/timeline-china-coronavirus-spread-200126061554884.html.

18 Id.

19 Id.

20 Id.

21 See Id.; Bill Chappell, Coronavirus: COVID-19 Is Now Officially A Pandemic, WHO Says, NPR (Mar. 11, 2020, 12:30 PM), https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says.

22 Karen Zraick & Sandra Garcia, Coronavirus Cancellations: A Brief List, N.Y. Times (Mar. 12, 2020, 12:53 PM), https://www.nytimes.com/article/cancelled-events-coronavirus.html.

23 Id.

24 Id.

25 Natt Garun, All the ways China's coronavirus outbreak is affecting tech, Verge (Feb. 21, 2020, 1:21 PM), https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21128307/coronavirus-outbreak-tech-industry-production-supply-chain-delay-impact.

26 Ina Fried, Coronavirus dents tech's supply chain, AXIOS (Mar. 11, 2020), https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-tech-supply-chain-45da76ff-fe0c-429b-8467-6018d7630f5b.html.

27 Lisa Eadicicco, Apple iPhone Production won't recover from coronavirus until Q2, Business Insider (Mar. 2, 2020, 9:49 AM), https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-production-coronavirusq2-kuo-2020-3.

28 Ware et. al., supra note 15.

29 Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Force Majeure Contract Clauses, Duane Morris (Mar. 4, 2020), https://www.duanemorris.com/alerts/coronavirus_covid19_force_majeure_contract_clauses_0320.html.

30 Ware et. al., supra note 15.

31 Id.

32 See Rexing Quality Eggs v. Rembrandt Enters., Inc., 360 F. Supp. 3d 817, 840 (S.D. Ind. 2018).

33 Id.