Executive orders issued during the Covid-19 pandemic did not create an impossibility or cause frustration sufficient to shield restaurant owner from its obligation to pay rent
6/6/22
By: Edward Storck Recently, the Connecticut Supreme Court examined the rights of a restaurant owner tenant who had withheld payment of rent citing the executive orders dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic as the cause for their inability to pay rent. In AGW Sono Partners, LLC v. Downtown Soho, LLC, SC 20625 (May 10, 2022), the…
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Construction Claim Arbitration and Res Judicata
8/20/19
By: Catherine Bednar The Supreme Court of Connecticut recently affirmed the Appellate Court’s determination that when a property owner and a general contractor enter into binding, unrestricted arbitration to resolve disputes, the subcontractors are presumptively in privity with the general contractor for purposes of precluding subsequent litigation against them. In Girolametti v. Michael Horton Assocs., 332…