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July 15, 2025
Washington Wall Maker Will Pay $3.3M To Settle FCA Claims
A Washington state company that makes rigid wall shelters agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle allegations over false claims submitted under prime vendor contracts the U.S. Department of Defense used to buy goods and services, according to federal prosecutors.
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July 15, 2025
GAO Denies Protest Over Air Force Deals For Saudi Base Work
The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied a Texas company's protest alleging that a botched U.S. Air Force bid evaluation kept it from being tapped for one of a half dozen contracts for projects at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
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July 14, 2025
Pawn Operator FirstCash Settles ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Military Claims For $9M
Pawn shop giant FirstCash Inc. has agreed to a $4 million fine and consumer redress payments of at least $5 million to resolve U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims it violated the federal Military Lending Act with high interest pawn loans to active-duty servicemembers and their dependents despite an earlier consent order over the same misconduct.
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July 14, 2025
GAO Report Looks At FAA Use Of Fee Waivers In Settlements
The Federal Aviation Administration has required pilots and other certificate holders to waive their rights to seek attorney fees and other costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act in order to settle enforcement actions initiated against them, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report released Monday.
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July 14, 2025
House Passes Bills Aimed At Telecom Sector Security, Growth
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed half a dozen bills designed improve U.S. network security and spur the growth of communications industries.
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July 14, 2025
FCC To Hear Anuvu's Claim It Got Shorted In Spectrum Move
Anuvu Licensing Holdings will get a hearing before an administrative law judge at the Federal Communications Commission to determine if the agency owes it money for clearing out part of the C-band to repurpose the spectrum.
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July 14, 2025
State Dept. OKs Possible $2.6B Helicopter Sale To Norway
The U.S. Department of State said it has signed off on a possible sale of nine HH-60W helicopters and other equipment and support to Norway for an estimated $2.6 billion.
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July 14, 2025
Air Force Delay Entitles Contractor To Extra Costs, Board Says
A contractor tapped to work at Hurlburt Field Air Force Base in Florida is entitled to a claim for additional compensation since the U.S. Air Force delayed giving it a greenlight to start work and access the site, according to the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
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July 11, 2025
VA Watchdog Says Burn Pit Claims Denials Still Had Errors
The Veterans Benefits Administration didn't do everything it was supposed to in order to fix concerns a federal watchdog had about veterans who were exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan having their benefits prematurely denied, the watchdog says.
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July 11, 2025
DC Circ. Allows Gov't To Undo 9/11 Plea Deals
A D.C. Circuit panel ruled on Friday that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acted within the bounds of his legal authority when he yanked back plea deals from a trio of 9/11 co-conspirators that had already been signed.
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July 11, 2025
Ethiopian Airlines Case Settles '2 Minutes' Before Last Hearing
A Chicago damages trial set for a man who lost his immediate family in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash can be taken off the books because his case settled "literally two minutes" before his final pretrial hearing, attorneys told an Illinois federal judge Friday.
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July 11, 2025
Courts Face Early Push To Expand Justices' Injunction Ruling
In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed federal judges' ability to issue universal injunctions, Trump administration attorneys have begun pushing to expand the decision's limits to other forms of relief used in regulatory challenges and class actions. So far, judges don't appear receptive to those efforts.Â
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July 11, 2025
FCC Approves T-Mobile's $4.4B UScellular Deal
Federal Communications Commission staff late Friday approved the license transfers needed for T-Mobile to complete its $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular wireless operations.
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July 11, 2025
DOJ Poised To Pounce On Data Security Violators
Companies and individuals that are not yet in compliance with the U.S. Department of Justice's sweeping, complex new national data security program should expect to face probes and potentially enforcement actions sooner than later, experts say.
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July 11, 2025
Latham Adds Ex-Senate Intelligence Atty From DLA Piper
An attorney who worked for the U.S. Senate committee that investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has joined Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, D.C.
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July 10, 2025
Russian Banker Inks Sanctions DPA After FBI Botches Warrant
The founder of Bank Otkritie on Thursday secured a deferred prosecution agreement with Manhattan federal prosecutors to resolve allegations of assisting the head of Russian state-backed lender VTB Bank in evading U.S. sanctions, just a month after a swath of email evidence was thrown out over a botched FBI search warrant.
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July 10, 2025
Ex-Army Officer Admits Sharing Classified Info On Dating Site
A retired U.S. Army officer pled guilty Thursday to a conspiracy charge for divulging classified information on a foreign dating website to someone who claimed to be a woman in Ukraine and who once called him her "secret informant love."
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July 10, 2025
Execs Of Device Co. Made $6M From Insider Trading, Suit Says
Five executives for electrotherapy device maker Zynex Inc. were hit with a derivative suit Wednesday in Colorado federal court saying they inflated the company's stock price to cash out on shares valued at more than $6 million.
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July 10, 2025
GAO Says Co.'s Tech Trouble Can't Excuse Late Navy Deal Bid
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said the Navy reasonably rejected a Virginia company's proposal to provide support services for coming in after the deadline, despite assertions that a malfunctioning submission platform was to blame.
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July 10, 2025
11th Circ. Tosses Satellite Co.'s $829K Finder's Fee Suit
The Eleventh Circuit said Wednesday that a $829,000 award in favor of a satellite technology company should be tossed, writing that a Florida federal court didn't have jurisdiction over the case.
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July 10, 2025
Navigation Co. Says Study 'Validates' GPS Backup Plan
Geolocation company NextNav Inc. told the Federal Communications Commission in a letter Wednesday that detractors of its proposal to use the lower 900 MHz spectrum to deploy an Earth-based backstop for the Global Positioning System have raised unfounded concerns and mischaracterized an engineering study supporting its proposal.
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July 10, 2025
Trump Says 50% Copper Tariff Will Begin Aug. 1
President Donald Trump said his new 50% tariff on copper imports will take effect Aug. 1, citing national security concerns.
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July 10, 2025
SpaceX Seeks Record $400B Valuation, Plus More Rumors
Elon Musk's satellite and rocket maker SpaceX is planning to raise money in a private round that would value the company at a record $400 billion, Starbucks China is seeking bids for a stake sale that could value the chain at $10 billion, plus online fashion giant Shein hopes to salvage its long-awaited IPO by listing in Hong Kong.
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July 09, 2025
Senate Confirms Airline Executive To Lead FAA
The U.S. Senate Wednesday largely voted along party lines to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration.
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July 09, 2025
Boeing Wants 787 Contract Claims Split From 737 Fraud Suit
Breach of contract claims related to a 787 Dreamliner sale should be severed from litigation brought by Norwegian Air subsidiaries that also accuses the company of fraudulently misrepresenting its 737 Max aircraft, Boeing told a Washington federal judge.
Expert Analysis
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What FCA Liability Looks Like In The Cybersecurity Realm
​Two recent settlements highlight how whistleblowers and the U.S. Department of Justice have been utilizing the False Claims Act to allege fraud predicated on violations of cybersecurity standards — timely lessons given new bipartisan legislation introducing potential FCA liability for artificial intelligence use, say​ attorneys Rachel Rose and Julie Bracker.
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How Attorneys Can Become Change Agents For Racial Equity
As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.
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5 Takeaways From DOJ's Media Compulsory Process Rules
The U.S. Department of Justice’s new rules, making it easier for law enforcement investigating leaks to compel members of the media and third parties to disclose information, could have wide-ranging impacts, from reduced protections for journalists and organizations, to an expanded focus on nonclassified material, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Series
Running Marathons Makes Me A Better Lawyer
After almost five years of running marathons, I’ve learned that both the race itself and the training process sharpen skills that directly translate to the practice of law, including discipline, dedication, endurance, problem-solving and mental toughness, says Lauren Meadows at Swift Currie.
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DOJ Policy Shifts May Resurrect De Facto 'China Initiative'
The U.S. Department of Justice's recently unveiled white collar enforcement strategy seemingly marks a return to a now-defunct 2018 policy aimed at combating national security concerns with China, and likely foretells aggressive scrutiny of trade and customs fraud, sanctions evasion, and money laundering, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Supporting A Trial Team
While students often practice as lead trial attorneys in law school, such an opportunity likely won’t arise until a few years into practice, so junior associates should focus on honing skills that are essential to supporting a trial team, including organization, adaptability and humility, says Lucy Zelina at Tucker Ellis.
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7 D&O Coverage Areas To Assess As DOJ Targets DEI
Companies that receive federal funds or have the remnants of a diversity, equity and inclusion program should review their directors and officers liability insurance policies ahead of a major shift in how the U.S. Department of Justice enforces the False Claims Act, says Bill Wagner at Taft.
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ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Industry Impact Uncertain Amid Priority Shift, Staff Cuts
A recent enforcement memo outlines how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's regulatory agenda diverges from that of the previous administration, but, given the bureau's planned reduction in force, it is uncertain whether the agency will be able to enforce these new priorities, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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FAR Rewrite May Cloud Key Gov't Contract Doctrine
The Trump administration's government procurement overhaul, under which sections of the Federal Acquisition Regulation are eliminated by default, is bound to collide with a doctrine that allows courts to read omitted clauses into government contracts if they represent long-standing pillars of federal procurement law, say attorneys at Rogers Joseph.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From US Attorney To BigLaw
When I transitioned to private practice after government service — most recently as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — I learned there are more similarities between the two jobs than many realize, with both disciplines requiring resourcefulness, zealous advocacy and foresight, says Zach Terwilliger at V&E.
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Opinion
Aviation Watch: A Supersonic 'Boom' Going Nowhere Fast
Legislation recently introduced in Congress to repeal the Federal Aviation Administration's ban on supersonic flight over U.S. territory appears to benefit a single company with an uncertain business plan, and is not truly in the public interest, says Alan Hoffman, a retired attorney and aviation expert.
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The Ins And Outs Of Consensual Judicial References
As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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SpaceX Labor Suit May Bring Cosmic Jurisdictional Shifts
The National Mediation Board's upcoming decision about whether SpaceX falls under the purview of the National Labor Relations Act or the Railway Labor Act could establish how jurisdictional boundaries are determined for employers that toe the line, with tangible consequences for decades to come, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Opinion
The BigLaw Settlements Are About Risk, Not Profit
The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.
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DOJ Could Target Journalists Under Media Policy Reversion
The U.S. Department of Justice's recently announced media policy largely mirrors policies in effect from 2014 to 2020, but ambiguities in key statutory terms could allow the administration to apply it to journalists in new ways and expand investigations beyond leaks of classified information, says Julie Edelstein at Wiggin.