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Litigation

May 27, 2006

Nabbing Home Court in Venue-Selection Clauses

Focus Column - By Bryan Otake - In both professional sports and the public-contracting industry, nothing beats having the home-court advantage. Savvy public-agency managers know this and strive to add provisions to their public-works contracts that require the resolution of legal disputes in their local county superior court.

Focus Column

By Bryan Otake
     

      In both professional sports and the public-contracting industry, nothing beats having the home-court advantage. Savvy public-agency managers know this and strive to add provisions to their public-works contracts that require the resolution of legal disputes in their local county superior court. But a recent California case, Arntz Builders v. Superior Court...

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