英国最高法院就一份英国建筑领域常用的标准合同中的分层终止条款作出了备受业界期待的判决。该判决支持采用最直接的解释方式对该条款进行解读，并认可了大多数当事人对合同措辞运作方式的理解。...more
The UK Supreme Court has ruled on the interpretation of clauses in a standard form JCT Design and Build Contract. For the construction industry, the case is useful for illuminating the meaning of certain ambiguous JCT Design...more
The UK Supreme Court's widely anticipated decision on a tiered termination clause in a commonly used English standard form of construction contract should be welcomed by all sides of the industry and contract drafters...more
The US Court of Federal Claims’ (CFC) recent decision in Kwong v. United States, No. 23-267 (Fed. Cl. Nov. 25, 2025), provides significant support for the potential refund opportunity we identified in a previous blog post...more
A manufacturer will have to pay $22M in alleged wage and hour violations now that the Supreme Court declined to consider its appeal. Last year, a federal appeals court upheld the sizable jury verdict, finding that the company...more
Business owners, executives, and managers need to pay attention to wage and hour compliance or risk personal liability. In a recent ruling under federal and New Jersey wage and hour law, a managing director with some...more
California employers that fail to pay final wage judgments will face a host of new of potential ramifications thanks to new law just signed into effect by Governor Newsom. SB 261, signed Monday and taking effect on January 1,...more
Employers in Colorado could face steep penalties for wage and hour violations under a new law that took effect on Aug 6. They also risk losing their license to operate if willful violations are not remedied. To avoid running...more
In June, the Appellate Court of Illinois upheld an assessment of over $314 million against Sam’s Club for unpaid county cigarette excise taxes, including a 10% late fee, a 25% penalty, and accrued interest. The assessment...more
Last week, a Hennepin County judge sentenced an employer following a first-of-its-kind criminal conviction for wage theft in Minnesota. Since its enactment in 2019, Minnesota’s Wage Theft Prevention Act has imposed stringent...more
Taxpayers who made payments to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that included underpayment interest and/or failure-to-file/pay penalties that accrued during all or part of the period between January 20, 2020, through July...more
A Massachusetts federal court granted a franchisor’s request to enforce the franchise agreement’s post-termination non-compete provision against a terminated franchisee....more
Welcome to this edition of the FP Snapshot on the Manufacturing Industry, where we take a quick snapshot look at a recent significant workplace law development with an emphasis on how it impacts employers in the manufacturing...more
The UK and European gambling operator Paddy Power is fighting a legal action in the English High Court over a refusal to pay a customer who thought they had won a GBP1m jackpot when playing an online slot game. Paddy Power...more
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
A federal appeals court held last Fall that employers must pay hourly employees for the actual time they spend completing activities – not just the “reasonable time” it should take to finish assigned tasks – upholding a $22M...more
On October 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court’s vacatur of a maritime attachment order, providing a detailed analysis of the requirements for personal and in rem jurisdiction over...more
Helen Christakos a partner in our U.S. Privacy and Data Security practice, Tom Butcher a partner in our international Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) group and Head of Middle East Communications, Technology and...more
An owner hired a contractor to make improvements on real property, but the contractor failed to pay its subcontractors or suppliers. What happens next? Under Michigan’s Construction Lien Act, contractors, subcontractors,...more
What happens when a policyholder seeks to bring an action against its insurer for violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200 et seq., (“UCL”)), which has a four-year statute of limitations,...more
Terminating employees can be a daunting task. Failing to follow your state or local rules when terminating an employee can make the task exponentially more difficult and expensive. When a business plans on firing or laying...more
Earlier this year, the Associated Subcontractors of Massachusetts hired Robinson+Cole attorney Joseph Barra to submit an amicus brief to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for consideration in the appeal pending before...more
In 2019, California enacted Senate (SB) Bill 707, a law codified as California Code of Civil Procedure sections 1281.98 and 1281.99, that automatically deems an employer’s failure to pay fees required for the commencement or...more
Welcome to Construction & Claims, a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving construction news, claims, bid protests, contract administration and payment-related disputes....more
On April 16, the Governor of Maine signed into law HP 1452 (the “Act”), which will amend the selling processes for foreclosed properties, specifically when a property is being foreclosed upon following a failure to pay taxes....more