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According to Koontz in the afterword of a 2004 paperback reissue, rights for a movie version of The Bad Place were purchased by Warner Bros. in 1990. Actor Don Johnson and his wife Melanie Griffith were looking to play the leads of Bobby and Julie Dakota. Koontz wrote the screenplay and it drew considerable buzz at the studio until the then ...
The orthodox view is that it is necessary for any relevant contract to be ineffective, for example because it is discharged for breach, void ab initio (from the beginning) or frustrated. However, it will be available on a subsisting contract where it does not undermine the contractual allocation of risk. [2]
The presumptive choice of law rule for tort is that the proper law applies. [citation needed] This refers to the law that has the greatest relevance to the issues involved. In public policy terms, this is usually the law of the place where the key elements of the "wrong" were performed or occurred (the lex loci delicti). So if A is a pedestrian ...
However, it is important to note that expectation damages are not punitive; its theoretical purpose is to place the injured, non-breaching party in the same position that they would have occupied had there been full performance of the contract. [10] In other words, it is the amount that makes the injured party indifferent to the breach. Examples:
The theory of efficient breach seeks to explain the common law's preference for expectation damages for breach of contract, as distinguished from specific performance, reliance damages, or punitive damages. According to Black's Law Dictionary, efficient breach theory is "the view that a party should be allowed to breach a contract and pay ...
“Bad Behaviour” is notable, too, as an unusually rangy and risky showcase for Connelly, an actor who may have recently scored career-high box office in “Top Gun: Maverick,” but whose ...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major plot details from the finale of Edward Berger’s “Conclave.” Megyn Kelly took to X to criticize Edward Berger’s “Conclave” as a “disgusting ...
The man, who authorities did not identify, fled on foot and "successfully escaped" from law enforcement, the release states. The man then forced entry into a nearby home where he fatally shot the ...