Client Alerts & Publications
Old Case Teaches New Tricks – Zachry and the Port of Houston
Authors: Angela A.L. Connor, Curtis W. Martin,
Published Date: March 3, 2017
Eight years after completion of the wharf project, Zachry and the Port of Houston continue to slug it out in the appellate courts and continue to refine Texas construction law along the way. In the latest appellate opinion, the Court of Appeals details the general contractor’s control of the means and methods of their work without interference from a governmental [...] Read More
United States Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in EEOC Subpoena Case
Published Date: March 3, 2017
On September 29, 2016, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in McLane Co. Inc.EEOC, case number 15-1248, a case that asks the Court to resolve a split in the Circuit Courts of Appeals on the proper standard of review applied to a district court decision to quash or enforce a subpoena issued by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity [...] Read More
Nationwide Immigrant Strike May Trigger Excusable Delay and Other Contract Provisions
Published Date: February 5, 2017
Yesterday, February 16, 2017, media outlets reported a nationwide strike by immigrants and businesses referred to as “A Day Without Immigrants”. The protest, organized largely through social media, was a response by some to the Trump Administration’s immigration and foreign trade policies. Participating businesses shut down and immigrants refused to work or spend money in an e.ort to demonstrate the [...] Read More
Proposed Changes to Federal Lease Accounting Standards
Published Date: January 5, 2017
The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) has proposed amendments to federal lease accounting standards found within Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standard (SFFAS) 5, ‘Accounting of Liabilities of the Federal Government,’ and SFFAS 6, ‘Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment,’ promulgated by FASAB. The proposals would require entities leasing property to the federal government, such as private landlords, to [...] Read More
Texas Federal Court Permanently Enjoins U.S. Department of Labor “Persuader Rule”
Published Date: November 25, 2016
As an update to our prior alert, on November 16, 2016, a federal judge in Texas issued a permanent injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) “persuader rule” – a preliminary injunction had been granted this past June. In rendering the permanent injunction, the court adopted the reasoning of its prior June 27, 2016 decision that granted a nationwide [...] Read More
