Contract Disputes, Failure To Pay, Breach of Contract

Oral Contract and Invalid Lien Spell Trouble for Contractor

Frantz Ward LLP on 2/5/2025

Speedy Maintenance, LLC v. Windsor Tower, LLC, 2024-Ohio-5841 (2d Dist.) is a recent case concerning a dispute over repairs to a parking garage where Ohio’s Second District Court of Appeals confronted issues....more

Franchisor 101: No Tax on Renewals

Lewitt Hackman on 2/28/2022

A federal court in Virginia denied tax franchisor, Liberty Tax’s, motion to dismiss complaints by two of its area developers (“ADs”). The ADs claimed Liberty Tax breached their contract for wrongfully terminating, failing to...more

“Construction” of a Well Pad Requires More than a Survey

Gray Reed on 7/21/2020

In Evans Resources, L.P., et al. v. Diamondback E&P, LLC, two agreements left the terms “constructed” and “utilized” undefined. If the terms had been defined would the outcome have been different? Maybe. Should parties define...more

Michigan Federal Court Permits Subcontractor’s Quasi-Contractual Claims to Proceed Despite Existence of Express Contract Covering...

Troutman Pepper Locke on 6/23/2020

P.A.L. Environmental Safety Corp. v. North American Dismantling Corp. Et Al., No. 19-11630, 2020 BL 198779 (E.D. Mich. May 28, 2020) - A Michigan federal court partially granted Consumers Energy Company’s (“CEC”) motion to...more

When are damages based on unjust enrichment appropriate?

Bricker Graydon LLP on 10/4/2019

Ohio courts have long been in agreement that “[i]t is clearly the law in Ohio that an equitable action in quasi-contract for unjust enrichment will not lie when the subject matter of that claim is covered by an express...more

A Contractor That Intentionally And Materially Breaches Its Contract Is Not Precluded From Recovery Under Quantum Meruit;...

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/16/2018

G4S Tech. LLC v. Mass. Tech. Park Corp., 2018 Mass. Lexis 357 (June 13, 2018) - A state development agency (the “Agency”), received state and federal funding to build a 1,200-mile fiber optic network. It contracted with...more