The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to tackle an en banc Federal Circuit decision limiting who qualifies as an "interested party" allowed to protest a government contract award at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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Justices Won't Review Who Can Protest Gov't Contracts

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to tackle an en banc Federal Circuit decision limiting who qualifies as an "interested party" allowed to protest a government contract award at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

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NY Fights Feds' Stop-Work Orders For Offshore Wind Projects

By Lauren Berg

New York is challenging a federal order halting construction of two offshore wind projects that are projected to power more than a million homes, saying the Trump administration has not explained why the projects, which both previously passed all safety and environmental reviews, have suddenly presented national security concerns.

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Justices Pass On Bias Suit Over SBA Small Biz Program

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a veteran's constitutional challenge to a Small Business Administration contracting program over alleged racial bias, after the Fourth Circuit ruled he lacked standing to pursue his claims.

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Justices Wary Of Broader Removal In Coastal Pollution Suits

By Keith Goldberg

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday questioned a bid by ExxonMobil and Chevron to move Louisiana pollution lawsuits to federal court, appearing hesitant to embrace the companies' argument that their World War II-era oil production clearly was federal in nature.

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High Court Won't Hear Whistleblowers' FCC Fraud Claims

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review whether the D.C. Circuit erred by rejecting two lawyers' claims that entities linked to UScellular defrauded the government by falsely claiming small business credits in a federal spectrum auction.

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HHS' Pediatric Health Cuts Blocked As Likely 'Retaliatory'

By Mark Payne

A D.C. federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from cutting nearly $12 million in pediatric health funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, finding HHS could be retaliating for a lawsuit challenging the agency's changes to members on a federal vaccine committee. 

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ENFORCEMENT

Joint Cannabis Firms Settle Antitrust, 'Gun Jumping' Claims

By Brian Steele

Four Connecticut cannabis companies and their principals have agreed to pay $416,000 to settle claims that they violated state marijuana, antitrust and unfair trade practices laws by skipping a mandatory merger review process, the attorney general's office said Monday.

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LITIGATION

Justices Won't Hear Duke Energy Monopoly Suit

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a ruling that revived antitrust claims from NTE Energy Services accusing Duke Energy of squeezing it out of the power market in North Carolina.

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Split 11th Circ. Rules Petition Doesn't Apply To 'Cop City' Law

By David Minsky

A split Eleventh Circuit has vacated a lower court injunction halting Atlanta's requirement that only city residents can collect signatures seeking to repeal ordinances, ruling that the referendum petition process can't be used to do away with a local law authorizing a lease for a police training facility dubbed "Cop City."

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Oil Businessmen Look To Arbitrate $650M Ecuador Dispute

By Caroline Simson

A father and son targeted by Ecuador's state-owned oil shipping company in a $650 million lawsuit over events at the heart of a corruption and impeachment scandal involving former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso told a Pennsylvania federal court that the dispute belongs in arbitration.

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Army Contractor Seeks To Limit Evidence In Fraud Trial

By Madeline Lyskawa

Fluor Corp. told a South Carolina federal judge that evidence and testimony related to a suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield and to fraud allegations must be excluded from a trial over accusations that the company overcharged the military.

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Calif. City Claims Void Development Deal In SoFi Owner's Suit

By Nate Beck

The city of Inglewood asked a California state court to dismiss real estate magnate Stan Kroenke's claim that he's owed $376 million in support costs on SoFi Stadium, arguing that a decade-old development agreement is void based on a state appeals court decision.

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Brief

Justices Seek SG's View In Military Shipbuilders' Wage Row

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the solicitor general to weigh in on a petition filed by U.S. military shipbuilders challenging a proposed class action accusing them of suppressing naval architects' wages through a no-poach "gentlemen's agreement."

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GAO

GAO Denies Protest Of $95M GAO Tech Services Contract

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Government Accountability Office declined to overturn its decision not to evaluate whether the winning proposal to provide information technology services for the agency contained prices that were too low.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Judges On AI: How Courts Can Boost Access To Justice

Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Thumma writes that generative artificial intelligence tools offer a profound opportunity to enhance access to justice and engender public confidence in courts’ use of technology, and judges can seize this opportunity in five key ways.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

No Jury Yet In Goldstein Trial, But Celeb Witnesses Possible

By Jared Foretek

Day two of jury selection in Tom Goldstein's tax and mortgage fraud case wrapped without a jury being seated Tuesday, but did reveal that the government could call celebrities Tobey Maguire and Kevin Hart to the stand.

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Ex-Duane Morris Tax Partner Charged With Murdering Wife

By Hailey Konnath

A former tax partner at Duane Morris LLP's Chicago office has been charged with killing his wife a little more than a year ago, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Illinois prosecutors.

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Beasley Allen Talc Work Sends 'Bad Signal,' J&J Says

By George Woolston

Johnson & Johnson's talc unit told a New Jersey appeals panel on Tuesday that a lower court's ruling permitting Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over its talc-based baby powder "sends a very bad signal" to the state bar.

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Ex-Atty, Others Charged In Staged New Orleans Crash Scheme

By Hope Patti

A disbarred attorney was hit with new charges claiming that he induced a witness to commit perjury and obstructed justice in the federal investigation of an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in the New Orleans area.

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Halligan Blasts Court's 'Inquisition' Over US Atty Status

By Ryan Boysen

Lindsey Halligan said Tuesday that she is still the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a recent ruling to the contrary, dismissing a federal judge's questions about why she's still using the title as an "inquisition" and a "gross abuse of power."

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Approach The Bench: Judge Bough On Ethics

Years of experience as a plaintiff's attorney influenced U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough's disclosure rules for litigators appearing in his court.

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DLA Piper Can't Counsel Hudson Hotel In Ch. 11, Judge Says

By Alex Wittenberg

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected a bid by two bankrupt entities tied to the former Hudson Hotel to retain DLA Piper LLP as special counsel in their Chapter 11 case, saying the law firm's work for the entities' lender presented a conflict of interest.

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Sen. Whitehouse Presses AG On Boasberg Complaint Results

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the courts panel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the results of the disciplinary complaint she filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia when the investigation wraps up.

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Jack Smith To Testify Publicly Next Week

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith is slated to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22 after, according to his attorney, having been "ready and willing" to do so for a while.

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4th Circ. Combines DOJ Appeals Of Comey, James Dismissals

By Jack Karp

The Fourth Circuit has granted the Trump administration's request to combine its previously separate appeals of the dismissals of prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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