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AGC Legal Brief Highlights Cedroni Decision, Other Recent Michigan Cases

This issue of the Legal Brief was written by Aileen M. Leipprandt, a construction  attorney with the Hilger Hammond firm in Grand Rapids, and includes the following articles:

• Contractor Gets a Shot at Proving Architect Improperly Interfered with Bid Award [reporting on the November 2010 Michigan Court of Appeals deicsion in Cedroni Associates, Inc v Tomblinson, Harburn Associates, Mich Ct App No.  287024  (Nov 16, 2010]

• Contractor Holds Airport Authority's Feet to the Fire Despite Absence of Signed Contract [which discusses The Garrison Company v Bishop Int'l Airport decision]

•  Construction Lien Has Priority over Mortgage Regardless of Change in General Contractor and Project Ownership [which details decision in First Community Bank v Mountainaire, LLC, et al., Mich Ct App No. 293005 (Oct 21, 2010)] 

• You Snooze, You Lose - Subcontractor's Lien Invalid Where Warranty Work Did Not Extend Time to Record Lien [reporting on Stock Building Supply, LLC v Parsley Homes of Mazuchet Harbor, LLC, et al., Mich Ct App No. 294098  (Jan 25, 2011)]

• What's New in the New AIA A-312 Payment and Performance Bonds? 

The AGC Legal Brief is published quarterly by the AGC of Michigan and its Legal Advisory Committee. The full text of the February, 2011 issue can be found here at the AGC's website.

Full post as published by Michigan Construction Law on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).