{"id":238,"date":"2020-03-19T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/600hemphill.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2020-03-19T19:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:19:53","slug":"dallas-businesses-know-this-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/600hemphill.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/dallas-businesses-know-this-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Businesses: Know. This. Case."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/viruses-1024x576.jpg?resize=250%2C141\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/viruses.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/viruses.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/viruses.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/viruses.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/viruses.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/viruses.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is a cross-post from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.600commerce.com\/\">600Commerce<\/a>, which follows the Dallas Court of Appeals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Dallas Court of Appeals case addresses the breach-of-contract defense of impracticability, <a href=\"http:\/\/600commerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hewitt-v-Biscaro.doc.pdf\">Hewitt v Biscaro<\/a>, 353 S.W.3d 304 (Tex. App.\u2014Dallas 2011, no pet.). Relevant to the current crisis, it involves a government order that allegedly made performance more difficult. The Court examined whether:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the performance issue was a basic assumption of the contract;<\/li><li>the government\u2019s action was an official order or regulation (in that case, the SEC&#8217;s contact with the defendant was not); and<\/li><li>the defendant was acting in good faith.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Court relied on an earlier Texas Supreme Court case and the relevant <em>Restatement (Second) of Contracts<\/em> provision. Application of this opinion will be important in upcoming commercial disputes created by the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a cross-post from\u00a0600Commerce, which follows the Dallas Court of Appeals. One Dallas Court of Appeals case addresses the breach-of-contract defense of impracticability, Hewitt v Biscaro, 353 S.W.3d 304 (Tex. App.\u2014Dallas 2011, no pet.). Relevant to the current crisis, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/600hemphill.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/dallas-businesses-know-this-case\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contract"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dallas Businesses: Know. 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