Construction
May 8, 2002
Court Distinguishes 'Cardinal Change' From 'Abandonment'
Focus Column - By Bernard S. Kamine - The Feb. 4 majority opinion in Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks, 2002 DJDAR 1285 (Cal. Feb. 4, 2002), left most construction lawyers scratching their heads. They had assumed that "abandonment of contract" was just California nomenclature for what the federal government and most other states call a "cardinal change."
Focus Column
By Bernard S. Kamine
The Feb. 4 majority opinion in Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks, 2002 DJDAR 1285 (Cal. Feb. 4, 2002), left most construction lawyers scratching their heads. They had assumed that "abandonment of contract" was just California nomenclature for wh...
By Bernard S. Kamine
The Feb. 4 majority opinion in Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks, 2002 DJDAR 1285 (Cal. Feb. 4, 2002), left most construction lawyers scratching their heads. They had assumed that "abandonment of contract" was just California nomenclature for wh...
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