The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued a final rule in an effort to reduce water pollution on construction sites. The rule, which is set to take effect in February 2010 over a four-year period, is targeted to improve the quality of water nationwide. According to a press release by the EPA, the impact is significant:
Construction activities like clearing, excavating and
Last week Scott Judy, Editor-in-Chief of Southeast Construction magazine, sent me a tweet about a courthouse project in Jacksonsville, Florida where a large number of fake IDs surfaced on the site. As reported in the article, Federal officials discovered about 100 fake documents after looking at the paperwork collected by the city. The mayor was expected to forward
I recently read in the Nashville Bar Journal about a new change to the hearsay rules. This is what immediately came to mind. On any given day, I receive a call from my lovely wife about one of my five children who has been put on the witness stand for interrogation by my wife. 
The defendant
As reported by the Tennessee Bar Association, the 2010 Tennessee State High School Mock Trial Competition got underway yesterday with the release and publication of the mock problem. 
The case involves a dispute over the design and construction of a 400,000 square foot distribution center featuring a concrete slab-on-grade floor. The primary issue in
Heads up Westlaw, LEXIS, FindLaw and all you other law-related databases. There is another giant in the field of legal research. Last night, Google launched a new feature on Google Scholar that makes 80+ years of US federal caselaw and 50+ years of US state caselaw searchable and readable. Here’s what you may find: 
Following on my earlier post … nevermind. Leadership of the Tennessee House and Senate recently reached a bipartisan agreement to immediately introduce legislation in January 2010 to suspend the effective date of Public Chapter 1041 from January 1, 2010 to February 28, 2011. As reported last week, the new law was enacted to require a sole proprietor
College football in the Midwest. No further comment needed. So it should come as no surprise to see that a construction project in Mishawaka, Indiana was "postponed" as the local football team advanced to the state playoffs.
Although the school’s request to hold off the work crews affected construction for only a few days—and there
As much as possible, I like to highlight various forms of construction contract documents. In most of my green building presentations over the past few months, I have talked about the "soon to be released" Green Building Addendum from ConsensusDOCS. Well, that day has finally come!
Based upon my preliminary review of the 310
I am certainly not the first … and certainly won’t be the last … person to write about Robert Watson’s webinar presentation yesterday afternoon entitled, Building a Sustainable Future: Progress & Trends Toward Improving the Environmental Footprint of Commercial Buildings.
Watson, Executive Editor for GreenerBuildings.com, is most commonly referred to as the father of
I love seeing a case zig zag through the appellate process … and I especially enjoy reading one where intermediate appellate court reverses the trial court and the highest court then reverses that intermediate appellate court. I know, I’m sick.
In a decision released yesterday, Goff v. Elmo Greer & Sons Construction Company, the Supreme Court of Tennessee reversed