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High Speed Rail Authority ready for construction after settling environmental lawsuits

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
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  • April 23 2013

On the eve of target date to commence construction, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (the "Authority") managed to settle the remaining

Overpaid DBE subcontractor could not defend overpayment based on DBE compliance issues

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 23 2011

Central Bridge Company, LLC subcontracted with Javier Steel Corporation for steel materials and labor for seven different road projects in Kentucky

Next stop, district court (again)! Second Circuit vacates injunction barring disclosure of trade secrets concerning New York City subway brakes

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 13 2009

Opening with a tribute to the iconic New York City subway system, complete with citations to sources as diverse as Leonard Bernstein and The Bonfire of the Vanities, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week vacated and remanded a preliminary injunction barring a braking system manufacturer from disclosing proprietary drawings and other information to the New York City Transit Authority during the contracting process

Supreme Court of Virginia affirms ruling on written notice of claim to VDOT

  • Williams Mullen
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

In the recent decision of Commonwealth of Virginia v. AMEC Civil, LLC, the Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed that a contractor pursuing an administrative claim against the Virginia Department of Transportation (“VDOT”) must give timely written notice to VDOT clearly stating the contractor’s intention to file a claim

Court invalidates EIRs use of a baseline predicated on future, post-approval conditions for analysis of project's impacts

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2011

In Sunnyvale West Neighborhood Assn. v. City of Sunnyvale City Council ("Sunnyvale"), the California Court of Appeal, Sixth District (the "Court") invalidated the use of a baseline consisting of future, post-project approval conditions to analyze a project's impacts in an Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”

Federal statutes gave no property rights to county

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 27 2011

In the middle of the 19th century, the federal government wanted to encourage railroading

Statutory exemption not waived by conducting EIR; can be invoked even after litigation commences

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 5 2011

In this case, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth District held that a city may defend itself against a California Environmental Quality Act challenge by invoking a statutory exemption even if the city has prepared an EIR for the project

P3 update for California transportation projects: appellate decision helps pave way for current and future projects

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 19 2011

The Presidio Parkway Project, California’s first public-private partnership (“P3”) to move forward under legislation enacted in 2009, is expected to proceed after a California appellate court denied a request to enjoin the project

CEQA: Sunnyvale Court affirms use of multiple baseline scenarios in EIRs

  • Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 23 2011

A recent court decision upheld the use of multiple scenarios in a traffic analysis in an environmental impact report ("EIR") for a redevelopment project

Port sued for false claims in PL 480 program

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 23 2012

On October 19, 2012, the U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbua against Jacintoport International LLC in Texas under the False Claims Act