After a construction worker was arrested for selling marijuana on a job site, a federal judge in Missouri determined questions remained regarding whether a third-party staffing agency was considered a subcontractor to a project group.
In a Monday opinion, U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel of the Eastern District of Missouri denied a motion for summary judgment brought by the engineering firm Roeslein & Associates in a breach-of-contract suit against Wendt, a construction project group whose bids were accepted for two parts of the construction in Ohio. Wendt subsequently utilized a staffing agency, Trillium Construction Services, to hire laborers to work on the project. The contract between Roeslein and Wendt went sideways following the arrest of a Trillium employee, leading to Roeslein filing suit against Wendt. The parties disputed whether Trillium was a subcontractor to Wendt, among other things.