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When should the Covid-19 pandemic or the restrictions imposed in its wake excuse you from a contract? The courts have been struggling with this issue for months now, and the answer until recently has been . almost never.
That’s in keeping with a long US tradition under which each party to a contract essentially bears the risk of its own promises. But there have been calls for change, and some judges may be listening.
Which might cause problems of its own.
Let’s start with a bit of history. This fall, like many other law professors who teach contracts, I added to my course a 1918 decision called Hanford v. Public Fair Association, which arose during the 1916 polio pandemic that would eventually kill 6,000 people, mostly children, across the US. An entrepreneur who had planned to put on a “baby show” canceled the event and was sued by the property owner who’d expected to make money from the lease. The court ruled for the entrepreneur on the groun ....

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