A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has rejected an autonomous military training company's protest of a $190.7 million Marine Corps contract, saying the company couldn't challenge the award after it was disqualified from participating in the solicitation. 
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TOP NEWS

DQ'd Co. Can't Protest $190M Navy Contract, Judge Says

By Madeline Lyskawa

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has rejected an autonomous military training company's protest of a $190.7 million Marine Corps contract, saying the company couldn't challenge the award after it was disqualified from participating in the solicitation. 

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Judge Says Bid Protester Had No Shot At $128M DOE Award

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims rejected a company's protest of the U.S. Department of Energy's decision to pass it over for a $128.9 million contract, saying the company wouldn't have won the award even absent the agency's evaluation error. 

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HUD Housing Aid Limits Will Drive Homelessness, States Say

By Rachel Riley

Washington and 19 other states launched a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Rhode Island federal court, seeking to stop abrupt policy changes they claim will result in tens of thousands of formerly homeless people being ousted from publicly subsidized housing and onto the streets.

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ENFORCEMENT

Feds Run Table In Housing Bribery Case With 70th Conviction

By Pete Brush

A former public housing superintendent from Brooklyn admitted accepting bribes in exchange for handing out no-bid work contracts Tuesday, as federal prosecutors secured the convictions of all 70 New York City Housing Authority workers arrested last year in an anticorruption sweep.

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LITIGATION

IT Contractor Fights $6.8M Verdict In FAA Contract Dispute

By Carolyn Muyskens

An information technology company has asked a Michigan judge to erase or reduce a $6.8 million verdict finding the company caused a competitor to lose a Federal Aviation Administration contract, saying there was no basis for the jury's award.

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Mich. Schools Gain Chance To Opt Out Of Aid Privacy Waiver

By Carolyn Muyskens

Michigan schools have reached an agreement with the state for more time to make what the schools call an "impossible choice" to waive legal privileges to receive critical funding, while court challenges to the waiver play out.

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NJ Panel Confirms Utility Co. Misclassified Workers

By Irene Spezzamonte

A New Jersey utility systems installer should have classified workers on public projects under the prevailing wages for electricians, a New Jersey appellate panel said Tuesday, affirming the state Department of Labor determination that the company owed nearly $159,000 in wages, penalties and fees.

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GAO

GAO Denies Protest Of $84M Air Force Reaper Drone Contract

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Tuesday rejected a company's protest over the Air Force's award of an $84 million MQ-9 Reaper drone training services contract to another offeror, saying the service branch was not obligated to compare offerors' past performance records. 

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

1st Circ. Offers Diversity Jurisdiction Lessons For Assignees

A recent First Circuit opinion in Gore v. SLSCO, dismissing a case after years of litigation, serves as a cautionary tale about what can go wrong if an assignee has not alleged sufficient facts to demonstrate there is complete diversity jurisdiction, says Ray Gauvreau at Robinson & Cole.

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Considerations When Invoking The Common-Interest Privilege

To successfully leverage the common-interest doctrine in a multiparty transaction or complex litigation, practitioners should be able to demonstrate that the parties intended for it to apply, that an underlying privilege like attorney-client has attached, and guard against disclosures that could waive privilege and defeat its purpose, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates

By Anna Sanders

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.  

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Judges Decline Invites To Senate Hearing On Impeachment

By Courtney Bublé

Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing next week on the impeachment of "rogue" judges, a source familiar with the situation told Law360 on Tuesday.

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DOJ Official Sues Over Firing For Epstein Talk On Hinge 'Date'

By Alison Knezevich

A longtime official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired after he was secretly recorded discussing the Epstein files has sued the agency and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in D.C. federal court.

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Democrats Seek Documents On Emil Bove's DOJ Tenure

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Democrats are turning to public records requests to learn more about the controversial tenure of U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove while he served at the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that they're being "stonewalled" by the department.

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$255K In Fees To Google For 'Frivolous' Ramey Case Upheld

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a California judge's decision that a client of embattled intellectual property firm Ramey LLP must pay nearly $255,000 in fees and sanctions for bringing a "frivolous" patent suit against Google, finding the award to be "entirely proper."

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Fla. Law Student Expelled For Antisemitic Post To Be Reenrolled

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a law school student who was expelled after he was investigated over antisemitic posts on social media, saying the university didn't prove his speech "constituted a true threat." 

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Texas Law Firm, Atty Reach Tentative Deal In Age Bias Suit

By Rose Krebs

An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.

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Husch Blackwell Blasts Ex-Firm Atty's ERISA Suit

By James Boyle

A former Husch Blackwell LLP partner's claim that the firm violated federal law by withholding monthly retirement account contributions misidentified the funds in question as participant contributions, when they were, in fact, contributions from the firm's year-end profit-sharing program.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Disparti Law Group

Greenberg Traurig

Holwell Shuster

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Mark S. Zaid PC

Matthew G. Miller PC

Maynard Nexsen

Milbank LLP

Perkins Coie

Piro Zinna

Ramey LLP

Reaves GovCon

Robinson & Cole

SBSB Eastham

Sabatini Law Firm PA

Sanford Heisler

Schaerr Jaffe

Vladeck Raskin

Weil Gotshal

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Caterpillar Inc.

Corning Inc.

Dow Inc.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Netflix Inc.

Nidec Corp.

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Aviation Administration

Michigan Department of Education

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

New York City Housing Authority

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Senate

Washington Attorney General's Office