The Texas legislature is getting at least one thing right this session! Texas lawmakers last week reviewed a bill that will provide expanded liability protection to businesses, schools, healthcare facilities and first responders against lawsuits arising from COVID-19-related claims of […]
Impossibility, Impracticability and Force Majeure in the COVID environment 05.22.2020 Dusting off the “Big Three” There are many ways in which the COVID scare might make it difficult for you to perform under a contract. Therefore, you might think that […]
05.01.2020 Things may soon be getting back to whatever will pass for post-COVID normal. For more on that, read our article on Governor Abbott’s First “Reopening Texas” Order, effective May 1, 2020, at https://www.eblawtexas.com/p?850 But for now, we hope that […]
But it needs to get brighter in Dallas 04.30.2020 Brian L. Benitez Around six weeks ago, politicians across our republic announced that due to fear, ignorance, and political and media pressure, they would be turning off the light at the […]
Updated 04.18.2020 On April 16, 2020, County Judge Clay Jenkins issued his Amended Safer at Home Order (the “Dallas Order”). The Dallas Order supersedes all other county-level restrictions and prior Safer at Home Orders. On April 17, 2020, the Dallas […]
Following on the heels of President Trump issuing guidelines on “Opening Up America Again”, Governor Abbott just issued Executive Order GA-17. Executive Order GA-17 establishes a Governor’s Strike Force to Open Texas to evaluate when and how to start removing […]
On March 31, 2020, Governor Abbott issued Executive Order GA-14 (the “Order”) which supersedes previously-issued Executive Order GA-8, but not Orders GA-10 – GA-13. This Order remains in force until April 30, 2020 unless modified, amended, rescinded or superseded by the […]
Here’s the order issued on March 29, 2020 with additional requirements for contractors to work safely. Interestingly it requires mandatory temperature checks of all workers before they leave home and optional temperature checks at the jobsite, which is an unprecedented […]
None of the growing number of shelter in place orders (“Order(s)”) in and around Dallas have defined “residential and commercial construction,” leaving the question of whether a salesman (and by association, his company) risks being ticketed, arrested or worse in […]
Contracting in Dallas? We’re getting lots of reports that police officers are pulling folks over demanding an explanation of what they’re doing and requiring proof of them falling into the essential services exception to the current shelter in place order. […]
