Legal Opinion
Piracci Construction Co. v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 22, 1980No. 76 Civ. 2941 (CHT)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TENNEY, District Judge.
Piracci Construction Co., Inc. (“Piracci”) sued Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (“SOM”) on three causes of action growing out of the construction of the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (“Museum”) in Washington, D.C. SOM, an architectural and engineering firm, designed the museum, and Piracci built it, each under a separate contract with the General Services Administration of the United States (“GSA”). In its first cause of action, Piracci claimed that SOM injured it by negligently designing the Museum and thereby causing…
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