2021 Construction Outlook: Slow, Uneven Recovery Expected
The way we started 2020 was a lot different than how we ended 2020. Here’s a recap: The Start of 2020: When we started 2020 construction…
The way we started 2020 was a lot different than how we ended 2020. Here’s a recap: The Start of 2020: When we started 2020 construction…
For the roadway contractor it appeared to be an open and shut case: Plaintiff car driver was stopped at a standard one-way “reversing lane closure” traffic…
This Christmas looks to be a Blue Christmas as the nation grapples with rising infection, hospitalization and death rates due to COVID. But there’s always 2021…
On December 3, 2020, the California Department of Public Health issued a Regional Stay At Home Order (“Order”) triggered if intensive care unit (“ICU”) capacity drops below…
Earlier this year I filed a complaint in a court which I won’t identify other than to say that it wasn’t the San Francisco Superior Court.…
The most un-Halloween of Halloweens has come and gone. If you ask me though, between COVID, protests, fires, hurricanes, the passing of a Supreme Court Justice,…
In Caliber Paving Company, Inc. v. Rexford Industrial Realty and Management, Inc., Case No. G0584406 (September 1, 2020), the 4th District Court of Appeal examined whether…
People who live in glass houses should have insurance (in addition to not throwing stones). So too should your construction project. The risks inherent on a…
We’ve talked before about Business and Professions Code section 7031 which courts have referred to as “harsh[ ],” “unjust[ ]” and even “draconian.” Under Section 7031,…
In the days before cable, and long before Netflix, I watched my fair share of spaghetti westerns on lazy weekend afternoons. Bullets zinging past cowboys, knocking…
Just because you own a pair of Air Jordans doesn’t make you Michael Jordan. In the next case, Carter v. Pulte Home Corporation, Case No. A154757…
The announcement this week by major airlines and then by Disney that they will be laying off tens of thousands of workers is just the latest…