Separate actions earlier this month by California Supreme Court justices and two state legislators could set some new parameters for construction contracting in the state.
In a Feb. 16 ruling, the state supreme court threw out a state appeals-court decision that had allowed lawsuits by two construction firms against a competitor, claiming that its winning bids on more than $14 million in public-works jobs with state municipalities over a three-year period were based on alleged repeated violations of prevailing-wage laws, which the defendant denied.