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Choose With Care: Tennessee Federal Court’s Prompt Payment Conclusions Turn on Choice of Law Clause

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FE&C’s amended complaint also included claims for violation of the Tennessee PPA. FE&C argued that the Tennessee PPA applied because the subcontract included a choice of law provision, stating: “This agreement shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee, U.S.A.”

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More Than Meets the Eye: TN Court Finds Arbitration Agreement in Employee Handbook Non-Binding

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30, 2022), the Court of Appeals of Tennessee reversed the confirmation of an arbitration award because the so-called arbitration clause appeared in the employee handbook and was not a stand-alone agreement. In Mankin Media Systems, Inv. Timothy Crowder , No. 19CV-48300W (Jun.

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Owners Can Get Cake and Icing Under New Tennessee Lien Law

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Owners in Tennessee are celebrating a new law recently passed because they may get their icing, too! Although they both got to choose their own family dinner destination, we are going to have one huge cake this weekend…with tons of icing! 4) Any actual damages incurred by the owner.

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Fraud as an Exception to the Economic Loss Doctrine: Changing Trends in Colorado and Tennessee

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Addressing the first question, the court concluded that Weyerhaeuser and Dream Finders Homes dealt in a “network of contracts,” which is a “network of interrelated agreements between commercially sophisticated parties.” Thus, Tennessee’s Economic Loss Doctrine barred Commercial Painting’s fraud claim. In Milan Supply Chain Sols.

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LeMond Composites To Make New Carbon Fiber In Tennessee

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LeMond Composites has secured a licensing agreement with ORNL which will make it the first company to offer this new high-volume, low-cost carbon fiber to the transportation, renewable energy, and infrastructure markets. “We Considering Tennessee for your company’s relocation or expansion project? Image: TNECD.

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Judge Keeps Sale of TVA Nuclear Plant Alive

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A federal judge has rejected the Tennessee Valley Authority’s motion to dismiss a breach of contract claim brought by Nuclear Development LLC, which has an agreement to purchase the partially completed two-unit, 1,260-MW Bellefonte nuclear plant in Alabama.

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If You Settle Your Construction Dispute, Have You Really Settled It?

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The Court of Appeals of Tennessee recently addressed this issue in McNeese v. Right before trial, the parties reached an agreement and notified the court that the trial was unnecessary. The attorney for the Williams drafted a short letter agreement and sent it to opposing counsel. Williams, No.