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The Background: Indemnity clauses are often included in contracts and can be extremely valuable, but they also raise many potential challenges to enforcing them, including state statutes, common law...more
The Situation: On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order titled "Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America's Workers" ("Made in America EO" or "EO"). The Made in America EO...more
[co-author: Juan Huertas]
Even as the world gradually eases out of lockdown, deals are rekindled and services are remobilized, no one doubts that the impact of the pandemic will continue to be felt for months and, some...more
6/26/2020
/ Construction Contracts ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Project ,
Contract Disputes ,
Contract Terms ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Force Majeure Clause ,
General Contractors ,
Infrastructure ,
Performance Standards ,
Subcontractors
In In re GreCon, Inc., a Texas appellate court recently addressed when a party must produce settlement agreements. The plaintiff sued multiple defendants in tort after a fire, and settled with all except GreCon. After...more
On July 13, 2017, Houston's Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Berkel & Company Contractors, Inc. v. Lee, 2017 WL 2986856, reversed a $43.5 million jury verdict for a superintendent who lost a leg after a crane collapsed at a...more
The Eastern District of Texas recently criticized a party's statement in its written discovery responses that it would produce documents "subject to" its objections. See Realpage, Inc. v. Enterprise Risk Control, LLC, No....more