Government Contracts

  • September 30, 2025

    FCA Suit Tainted By Expert's AI 'Hallucination' Gets Dismissed

    A False Claims Act suit rocked by allegations of AI-generated hallucinations in an expert's report ended Tuesday after the federal government joined the case and quickly urged a Utah federal judge to throw it out.

  • September 30, 2025

    GOP Sens. Push OMB To Release Federal Watchdog Funds

    The top Republicans on the Senate Appropriations and Judiciary committees are trying to prevent the White House from effectively shuttering the independent agency for federal watchdogs.

  • September 30, 2025

    Boeing, Rolls-Royce Get Suit Over Osprey Crash Trimmed

    A California federal judge has trimmed fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of contract claims out of a suit from the families of five U.S. Marines who died in the June 2022 crash of a V-22 Osprey aircraft, saying the complaint fails to meet pleading standards on those counts.

  • September 29, 2025

    DHS Can't Tie FEMA Funds To Immigration Agenda, AGs Say

    A dozen state attorneys general sued the Department of Homeland Security in Rhode Island federal court on Monday, accusing it of holding emergency response funding hostage unless they help enforce federal immigration laws, despite a recent court order blocking the department's attempts to condition funds on such assistance.

  • September 29, 2025

    Mass Voice Of America Layoffs Blocked, Again

    A D.C. federal judge on Monday blocked the planned termination of more than 500 U.S. Agency for Global Media employees, saying the layoffs would jeopardize the Trump administration's ability to comply with an April injunction ordering the government to fully restore Voice of America programming.

  • September 29, 2025

    FAR Council Releases Updated Small Biz Regulations

    The Trump administration released an updated version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 19, preserving the rule of two for contracts, while removing re-representation requirements for small businesses when responding to orders under multiple-award contracts.

  • September 29, 2025

    DOD Releases Contingency Plan For Gov't Shutdown

    The U.S. Department of Defense released guidance for continuing operations in case of a government shutdown, explaining that defense contractors performing work on a contract awarded prior to the expiration of appropriations can continue to provide services. 

  • September 29, 2025

    DOD Pitches $1.5B Arms Sales To Brazil, Denmark And Taipei

    The U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday that it plans to sell $1.5 billion worth of weapons to Brazil, Denmark and Taipei.

  • September 29, 2025

    Navy Awards Sikorsky $10.8B Contract For More Helicopters

    Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. said it was awarded a $10.8 billion U.S. Navy contract to build as many as 99 more CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for the Marine Corps or international military customers over five years.

  • September 26, 2025

    Trump Demands Microsoft Fire Ex-Biden Deputy AG Monaco

    President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that Microsoft fire its new President of Global Affairs Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general in the Biden administration and homeland security adviser in the Obama administration, in what seems to be the president's latest effort to exact revenge on his perceived political enemies.

  • September 26, 2025

    Drone-Maker DJI Can't Undo DOD's Chinese Military Co. Label

    A D.C. federal judge on Friday ended drone manufacturer DJI Technology's lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Defense's decision to designate it as a Chinese military company, saying the designation is supported by evidence and that the decision was not arbitrary.

  • September 26, 2025

    Construction Co. Urges Court To Ax Labor Deal Requirements

    A construction company called on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to order the Army Corps of Engineers to eliminate requirements that companies negotiate labor prices and work terms with a labor union to be eligible for a construction contract.

  • September 26, 2025

    Semler Scientific, Bard To Pay $37M To End FCA Claims

    The Department of Justice announced on Friday that two companies have agreed to pay nearly $37 million to resolve claims that they knowingly recommended healthcare providers submit erroneous Medicare claims for tests for diagnosing artery disease.

  • September 26, 2025

    Judge Won't Halt EPA's $3B Climate Grant Cuts During Appeal

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge denied conservation groups' and local governments' effort to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from ending a $3 billion climate grant program while they appeal the dismissal of their lawsuit.

  • September 26, 2025

    DC Circ. Revives FCA Suit Against US Cellular

    U.S. Cellular Corp. must face a lawsuit from two whistleblowers alleging it used a sham business to fraudulently obtain discounted spectrum licenses through Federal Communications Commission auctions, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday in overturning a lower court.

  • September 26, 2025

    High Court Pauses Distribution Of $4B Foreign Aid

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can hold onto $4 billion in frozen foreign aid funding while Congress considers a proposal to cut it, pausing a lower court order that required the federal government to spend the money before the end of the month.

  • September 26, 2025

    GAO Refuses To Revisit Denial Of $306M Army Deal Protest

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office has nixed a Virginia company's plea to revisit a decision dismissing its protest of a $306.8 million Army award for support services, saying it was based on interested party arguments that should have been raised earlier.

  • September 25, 2025

    Textron Shakes Privacy Suit Over Data Sharing With Google

    A California federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing Textron Inc. of illegally sharing information about website visitors' search activities with Google LLC, finding that the plaintiff failed to allege that the aviation and defense products manufacturer had expressly targeted residents of the Golden State.

  • September 25, 2025

    GAO Says Agencies' Procurement Data Reports Are Lacking

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report on Thursday that most federal agencies that reported procurement data in 2023 failed to complete a procurement data quality report or fell short of meeting all reporting requirements.

  • September 25, 2025

    Housing Authority Targets Ex-Chief's Home In $3.1M Suit

    A Connecticut municipal housing authority that is embroiled in litigation with its former executive director has asked a state court judge to make him pledge his Middlebury home to satisfy a potential multimillion-dollar judgment against him.

  • September 25, 2025

    Pa. High Court Backs Two-Lab Rule For Medical Pot Products

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state rule requiring medical marijuana businesses to test their products at two separate laboratories, finding that the state law's emphasis on public safety empowered regulators to impose the requirement.

  • September 25, 2025

    Tribal Co. Sues Feds Over $2M Military Bridge Project Loss

    A California tribal company is seeking more than $2 million in damages after it says the U.S. Air Force breached a contract for construction of a bridge by providing it with an incomplete engineering report and failing to gain timely environmental approvals for the project.

  • September 25, 2025

    Sheppard Mullin Continues Growing, Adds DLA Piper Leader

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has hired DLA Piper's former aerospace, defense and government services transactional practice co-leader, who is joining the team in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.

  • September 24, 2025

    Calif. Judge Blocks Feds' Transpo, Housing Grant Conditions

    A California federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from requiring cities and local governments to follow "impermissibly vague" directives relating to immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion policies in order to receive federal transportation, infrastructure, housing and other grants that had already been appropriated by Congress.

  • September 24, 2025

    GSA Official Says Agencies Are Free To Reject FAR Guidance

    A General Services Administration official said on Wednesday that agencies don't have to follow nonstatutory provisions that have been moved from the Federal Acquisition Regulation to guidance documents, as part of the Trump administration's regulatory overhaul.

Expert Analysis

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions

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    In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    9th Circ. Customs Fraud Ruling Is Good For US Trade

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    In an era rife with international trade disputes and tariff-evasion schemes that cost billions annually, the Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Island Industries v. Sigma is a major step forward for trade enforcement and for whistleblowers who can expose customs fraud, say attorneys at Singleton Schreiber.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Patent Ambiguity Persists After Justices Nix Eligibility Appeal

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    The Supreme Court recently declined to revisit the contentious framework governing patent eligibility by denying certiorari in Audio Evolution Diagnostics v. U.S., suggesting a necessary recalibration of both patent application and litigation strategies, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

  • How Trump Cybersecurity EO Narrows Biden-Era Standards

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    President Donald Trump recently signed Executive Order No. 14306, which significantly narrows the scope and ambition of a Biden executive order focused on raising federal cybersecurity standards among federal vendors, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.

  • DOJ-HHS Collab Crystallizes Focus On Health Enforcement

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    The recently announced partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to combat False Claims Act violations, following a multiyear trend of high-dollar DOJ recoveries, signals a long-term enforcement horizon with major implications for healthcare entities and whistleblowers, say attorneys at RJO.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • 4 In-Flux Employment Law Issues Banks Should Note

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    Attorneys at Ogletree provide a midyear update on employment law changes that could significantly affect banks and other financial service institutions — including federal diversity equity and inclusion updates, and new and developing state and local artificial intelligence laws.

  • New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.

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    In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year

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    In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.

  • Contract Disputes Recap: Privity, Pressure, Procedural Traps

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    Three recent decisions from the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals, the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims offer fresh lessons for contractors navigating the procedural edge of Contract Disputes Act litigation, says Zachary Jacobson at Seyfarth.

  • Series

    Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

  • Managing Risks As State AGs Seek To Fill Enforcement Gap

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    Given an unprecedented surge in state attorney general activity resulting from significant shifts in federal enforcement priorities, companies must consider tailored strategies for navigating the ever-evolving risk landscape, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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