construction law cases

• Commentary: Outrageous Construction Law Cases

People involved in litigation rarely find it amusing. Few are detached enough to find it even interesting. Most find it at best a necessary evil and at worst an unmitigated disaster. Lawyers worth their salt feel their clients' pain and try to avoid the expense and risks of litigation. When litigation does result, they try to accomplish their clients' objectives without a full-scale death march to the bitter end.

• Daily Journal of Commerce
• April 26, 2012

• Annual survey of fidelity and surety law - 2005: this compilation of recent cases covers public and private construction bonds, financial institution bonds, and sureties' remedies.

I. PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION BONDS A. State and Local Bonds--Procedural Subcontractor failed to comply with surety's default notice provisions of surety...

• Defense Counsel Journal
• Vol. 72 Nbr. 2, April 2005

• Fitzgerald Picks Mt. Lebanon Attorney for Allegheny County Solicitor

Allegheny County's executive has nominated an attorney from Mt. Lebanon for the post of county solicitor. Andrew F. Szefi, 40, a partner in the Downtown law firm Goehring Rutter & Boehm, is a member of the practice's municipal law, litigation and real estate practice groups. He has experience as a litigator in employment discrimination, eminent domain and construction law cases.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• February 16, 2012

• 7 CFR 1924.13 - Supplemental requirements for more complex construction.

... used for all complex construction except in cases where owner-builder method is authorized. Developm...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 7: Agriculture

• Fitzgerald Picks Mt. Lebanon Attorney for Allegheny County Solicitor

Allegheny County's executive has nominated an attorney from Mt. Lebanon for the post of county solicitor. Andrew F. Szefi, 40, a partner in the Downtown law firm Goehring Rutter & Boehm, is a member of the practice's municipal law, litigation and real estate practice groups. He has experience as a litigator in employment discrimination, eminent domain and construction law cases.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• February 17, 2012

• Annual survey of fidelity and surety law, 2003, part II: this roundup of recent cases covers public and private construction bonds, financial institution bonds and sureties' remedies.

I. PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION BONDS A. Bonds under Federal Laws 1. Procedural Miller Act's limitations barred suit by subcontractor that failed to brin...

• Defense Counsel Journal
• Vol. 71 Nbr. 4, October 2004

• Parent's Years of Residency Not Imputed to Alien Child, Rules U.S. Supreme Court

The Board of Immigration Appeals' determination that a parent's years of residency are not imputed to a child is a permissible construction of federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The first of two consolidated cases involved a Mexican national who entered the U.S. illegally at the age of 5 with his parents. His father subsequently obtained status as a legal permanent resident. The defendant also did so at age 19.

• Lawyers USA
• May 28, 2012

• Annual survey of fidelity and surety law - 2003, Part I: this roundup of recent cases covers public and private construction bonds, financial institution bonds and sureties' remedies.

I. PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION BONDS A. Bonds under Federal Laws Arbitration award on Miller Act claim against general contractor not subject to entry of ...

• Defense Counsel Journal
• Vol. 71 Nbr. 2, April 2004

• A Sense of Optimism As Law Firms Looking to Expand

We look for people who perhaps have been New York lawyers but who live in New Jersey," he said. "They're either getting out of the rat race or they're being asked to get out of the rat race. Reinhard said his firm remains prepared to bring on both associates and lateral hires in its most consistent and fastest-growing practice areas, as employment-law cases and construction litigation have caused the firm to add attorneys, he said. While Lindabury has weathered the recession with few changes, Harrison has followed changes at New York-based firms with interest Reading headlines about larger law firms cutting back over the past year, Harrison saw issues being raised that were discussed while he was studying for an MBA in law office management at Stony Brook University.

• NJBIZ
• February 08, 2010

• Annual survey of fidelity and surety law, 2002, Part II: this roundup of recent cases covers public and private construction bonds and financial institution bonds. .

Edited by Charles W. Linder Jr. I. PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION BONDS A. Bonds under Federal Laws Miller Act claims generally arbitrable under Federal Ar...

• Defense Counsel Journal
• Vol. 70 Nbr. 3, July 2003