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Type
Opinion
Author
Alice Moore Batchelder
Filed
March 28, 2025
Case
Munson Hardisty, LLC v. Legacy Pointe Apartments, LLC
Case status
Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0171n.06 No. 23-5732 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Mar 28, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) MUNSON HARDISTY, LLC, ) Plaintiff-Appellee, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT v. ) COURT FOR THE EASTERN ) DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE LEGACY POINTE APARTMENTS, LLC, ) Defendant-Appellant. ) OPINION ) ) Before: BATCHELDER, BUSH, and BLOOMEKATZ, Circuit Judges. ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge. Legacy Pointe Apartments hired Munson Hardisty to build an apartment complex in Tennessee. As with most construction contracts, however, plans often change, and this project was no exception. Indeed, as the project progressed, the parties made many changes to the project’s plans and specifications, which ultimately forced Munson Hardisty to do extra work. But when the parties made these changes to the contract, they did so without following the contract’s explicit requirements for change orders. When it later came time to pay Munson Hardisty for its extra work, Legacy Pointe refused to do so. Munson Hardisty then sued, and a jury awarded it almost $1.3 million in damages. For the reasons below, we affirm. I. In 2007, Lega…

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