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Advent, Inc. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

Insurance Law, Construction, Injury & Tort Law
In a complex insurance coverage action involving multiple primary and excess insurers and policies, arising out of an injury that a worker sustained...

Elliott Homes, Inc. v. Super. Ct.

Civil Procedure, Construction
In a suit against a homebuilder seeking damages for construction defects, defendant's petition for writ of mandate is granted where the trial court...

Driscoll v. Granite Rock

Labor & Employment Law, Class Actions, Construction
In a suit brought on behalf of a class of approximately 200 current and former concrete mixer drivers, claiming that construction company defendant...

Tidwell Enterprises v. Financial Pacific Ins. Co.

Insurance Law, Construction, Injury & Tort Law
In an insurance coverage action, arising out of a suit brought by a homeowner's insurer against a contractor who installed a fireplace that caused a...

Khosh v. Staples Construction

Construction, Injury & Tort Law
In a tort action brought by an injured employee of an independent contractor against the independent contractor's hirer, the trial court correctly...

San Diegans for Open Government v. City of Oceanside

Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law, Construction, Government Law
In a government action challenging defendant city's adoption of an agreement with a luxury hotel developer involving an $11 million remission of...

Regalado v. Callaghan

Construction, Injury & Tort Law
In a personal injury action brought by an employee of a subcontractor against a licensed contractor who acted as an owner-builder for his home project...

Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. v. City of Jersey City

Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law, Construction, Government Law
In a challenge to a City law that conditions certain tax exemptions and abatements to private developers of projects in certain designated areas on...

Shea Homes, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Property Law & Real Estate, Construction
In a tax action, arising over the subject matter of taxpayer's completed-contract accounting method of reporting income related to its development of...

Zafer Taahhut Insaat ve Ticaret A.S. v. US

Government Contracts, Construction
In an appeal from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims's grant of summary judgment that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not constructively change the...