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Law Practice

Aug. 22, 2009

Court Rejects Claim of Arbitrator Bias for Caltrans

An appellate court has made short work of a construction company's complaints against the mandatory arbitration program for resolving road-building disputes with Caltrans.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - An appellate court has made short work of a construction company's complaints against the mandatory arbitration program for resolving road-building disputes with Caltrans.

Attorneys for San Diego-based Coffman Specialties Inc., which builds multimillion-dollar freeways for the California Department of Transportation, charged in a lawsuit that Caltrans has unfair sway over the few dozen ...

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