This article originally appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of Construction Law, the newsletter of the WSBA Construction Law Section. Read the article on WSBA.org In Conway Const. Co. v. City of Puyallup, 197 Wn.2d 825, 490 P.3d 221 (2021), the Supreme Court of Washington considered several issues related to whether the City of Puyallup

This article is excerpted from the Spring 2022 issue of Construction Law, the newsletter of the WSBA Construction Law Section. Read the full article on WSBA.org Co-Written By Emily Yoshiwara – Groff Murphy PLLC and Evan Brown – Stoel Rives LLP In PELLCO Construction, Inc. v. Cornerstone General Contractors, Inc., 19 Wn. App. 2d 1024

CASE LAW ALERT:  Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States ex re. Hunt, 2019 WL 2078086, ___ S. Ct. ___ (2019) In a unanimous opinion issued on May 19, 2019, the United States Supreme Court resolved a circuit split regarding the statute of limitations applicable to qui tam False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases in which the

The Washington Supreme Court recently ruled in NOVA Contracting, Inc. v. City of Olympia that WSDOT Standard Specification 1-4.05 makes no exception to the written notice requirements for claims for expectancy and consequential damages. NOVA entered a contract with the City to replace a deteriorating culvert.  The Contract contained a “notice of protest” provision consisting

This article originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of Construction Law, the newsletter of the WSBA Construction Law Section. In Afoa v. Port of Seattle (Afoa II), 421 P.3d 903, 2018 WL 3469072 (2018), the Washington Supreme Court considered whether the Port of Seattle was vicariously liable for breaches of a nondelegable duty by

Federal agencies are increasing civil monetary penalties for the violation of numerous federal laws for the first time since the 1990’s.[1] Of particular concern to government contractors are recent interim final rule changes issued by the U.S. Departments of Justice (“DOJ”) and Labor (“DOL”) that have increased the maximum penalties for violation of the False Claims