Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | August 21, 2017
The Delaware Court of Chancery has dismissed a shareholder challenge to the 2015 sale of Martha Stewart's merchandising company to Sequential Brands Group Inc., ruling that the $353 million deal included protective measures that kept it within the protection of the business judgment rule and shielded it from heightened scrutiny.
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By Fred Jacoby, Ray DeLucA and Jeff Mullen | August 21, 2017
Construction contracts, because of the nature of the undertakings, the number of parties, and the layered involvement of specialty contractors at various tiers, are complicated and often attract complex and expensive litigation. To deal with this dynamic, construction contracts often contain risk shifting devices that are intended to transfer the potential liability for particular risks that affect the various participants.
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By David E. White and Esther Soria Mignanelli | August 21, 2017
The Pennsylvania Mechanics' Lien Law, 49 P.S. Section 1101 et seq. (the Lien Law), provides contractors a powerful legal hammer for the recovery of payment owed for work performed on a construction project; they can impose a lien against the property on which their work was performed, clouding the owner's title, until payment is received. In December 2016, as a result of last year's Act 142 (the act) amendments to the Lien Law, the Department of General Services launched the online State Construction Notices Directory (the directory). Prior to the creation of the directory, there was no streamlined system for owners and general contractors to track subcontractors and suppliers on a project site.
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By Henry Donner and David Dean | August 21, 2017
Pennsylvania's Mechanics Lien Law of 1963 was amended in late 2014 to require the commonwealth's Department of General Services to create an internet-based State Construction Notices Directory. As required by the law, the directory went live on Dec. 31, 2016, providing a standardized, statewide, internet-based system for construction notices. This statutory scheme imposes new requirements on project owners, contractors, and subcontractors, compliance with which can drastically affect those parties' rights under the Mechanics Lien Law. Practitioners representing any of the traditional parties in a construction matter should be sure to familiarize themselves with these new provisions, and advise their clients accordingly.
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By George E. Pallas and Jennifer R. Budd | August 21, 2017
For the construction law bar, the ubiquitous and widespread use of the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) contracts by public entities, developers, owners, contractors and architects all but assures their continued presence in construction litigation.
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By Edward B. Gentilcore | August 21, 2017
Oftentimes these days, when I open my connection to the internet, I am confronted with nearly a dozen headlines telling me the 10 things I need to know before working out, going to sleep, and, heavens forbid, walking into a nearby fast food restaurant (not to mention the adjacent headline telling me NEVER to walk into a fast food restaurant ever again, lest I break the seal of the scroll foretelling my early demise).
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By Katelyn Polantz | August 21, 2017
The trial boutique Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz has hired two clerks from the most recent U.S. Supreme Court term, and in the process it appears to have set a new high for incoming associate bonuses.
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By Roy H. Wepner | August 21, 2017
In recent years, defendants in patent litigation have made gains in the courts.
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By Micala Campbell Robinson | August 21, 2017
Gender pay equity is a hot-button issue that is here to stay, and the New Jersey legislature has demonstrated a will to attack the problem on a number of fronts.
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By Jenna Greene | August 21, 2017
If you had any doubt that 18-month-old Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz was here to stay as a litigation player, check out its class of seven new associates.
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