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Construction,
Civil Litigation

Feb. 4, 2020

Ruling in defect case is a lesson in purchase agreement drafting

While the Court of Appeal’s decision is relatively straightforward it seems that its decision was grounded primarily on how the purchase agreement was drafted.

Garret D. Murai

Partner
Nomos LLP

Garret is the editor of the California Construction Law Blog at www.calconstructionlawblog.com.

CONSTRUCTION CORNER

A former partner of mine whose name I will not mention, since big game hunting is frowned upon these days, has the bust of a Lepus Cornutus mounted in his office, also known as a Jackalope. An elusive beast, we may have one in the next case, SI 59 LLC v. Variel Warner Ventures, LLC, 29 Cal. App. 5th 146 (2018), an int...

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