2010 may have marked a year with historic lows in construction but it was quite the opposite in our busy appellate Courts. As has been the case in recent years, cases dealing with the interpretation of the Contractors License Law provisions were dominant, putting new spins of prompt payment penalties and Business and Professions Code […]
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THERE ARE MANY FINE LEGAL TREATISES which provide resource material for attorneys including case citations and detailed explanations. What this article intends to do is demystify the basic mechanics’ lien law and provide the non-specialist practitioner with a basic foundation of how the mechanics’ lien law works. The mechanics’ lien law is an umbrella term […]
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Last summer, the Second District Court of Appeal decided the case of Advantec Group, Inc. v. Edwin’s Plumbing Co., Inc., 153 Cal. App. 4th 621 (2007), 2007 Cal. App. LEXIS 1205. Although there was really nothing earthshattering in either the facts or the applicable law, the trial court’s rulings may have forever changed trials in […]
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