Earlier this year, I wrote a brief post on what I saw as a spike in the number of claims brought in Silicon Valley under the Americans With Disabilities Act, after several of my commercial real estate clients were sued for alleged ADA violations. That piece evoked many similar observations, and was the genesis for a Santa Clara County Bar Association presentation on local ADA … [Read more...] about California’s thorny ADA thicket continues to vex small businesses
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Architects and engineers beware! Escaping construction defect litigation just got more difficult
The California Supreme Court has just made it harder for architects, engineers and other design professionals to avoid being brought into defective construction lawsuits. In Beacon Residential Community Assn. v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, decided earlier this month, the Court ruled that architects that provide primary design services for residential construction … [Read more...] about Architects and engineers beware! Escaping construction defect litigation just got more difficult