ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ

Government Contracts

  • April 15, 2025

    NJ Judicial Privacy Law Is Unconstitutional, 3rd Circ. Told

    A group of data brokers told the Third Circuit that the New Jersey judicial privacy measure, Daniel's Law, is facially unconstitutional and that a federal district judge effectively "rewrote" it when he found otherwise.

  • April 15, 2025

    DC Maintains, Expands Tax Exemptions For NBA, NHL Arena

    The District of Columbia maintained and expanded tax breaks for the property and airspace of Capital One Arena, home to the NBA's Washington Wizards and NHL's Washington Capitals, as part of legislation that became law, according to a notice published in the district's register.

  • April 15, 2025

    DOL Blocked From Forcing Contractors To Swear Off DEI

    The U.S. Department of Labor cannot force federal funding recipients to certify that they don't operate programs that violate recent executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, an Illinois federal judge held, saying President Donald Trump's directive likely violates the First Amendment.

  • April 14, 2025

    Judge Vacates €978M Army Security Services Contract

    A Court of Federal Claims judge scrapped a €978.6 million ($1.02 billion) contract awarded by the U.S. Army for armed security services for installations in Germany, saying the agency relied on unstated evaluation criteria for past performance.

  • April 14, 2025

    9th Circ. Says $24M Punitive Damages In Jail Death Too Steep

    A jury correctly determined that a healthcare contractor was liable for the death of a woman in custody in a Washington jail, a split Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday, but its $24 million award for punitive damages was excessive.

  • April 14, 2025

    Judge Backs Air Force In Drone Pilot Contract Dispute

    A Court of Federal Claims judge said the U.S. Air Force reasonably excluded two companies from competing for a contract to train drone pilots, after they failed to certify themselves as women-owned small businesses in the system for award management as required.

  • April 14, 2025

    Calif. Board Says SpaceX Suit Should Be Grounded For Good

    The California Coastal Commission moved Friday for another dismissal of SpaceX's suit alleging the commission wrongly tried to block its plan to increase rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, saying because the commission's opposition was overridden by the U.S. Air Force, no harm was caused.

  • April 14, 2025

    Quinn Emanuel, King & Spalding Rep Harvard In Trump Letter

    Harvard University on Monday turned to a pair of high-powered lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and King & Spalding LLP as the school pushed back on the Trump administration's policy demands linked to nearly $9 billion in federal funding — a move that prompted the government to freeze more than $2 billion in grants for the school.

  • April 14, 2025

    Top Court Ruling Dooms Suit Challenging Housing Grant Cuts

    A federal judge in Boston on Monday vacated an earlier ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from cutting $30 million in housing anti-discrimination grants, saying a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in a similar case involving teacher training grants likely strips the court of jurisdiction.

  • April 14, 2025

    V&E Makes Perkins Coie Atty Gov't Contracts Group Co-Head

    Vinson & Elkins LLP has hired a partner from Perkins Coie LLP who is joining V&E's litigation practice and will co-head the firm's government contracts practice, the firm announced Monday.

  • April 11, 2025

    21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order

    A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.

  • April 11, 2025

    Tool Co. Can't Yet Defeat Former Worker's FCA Claims

    A Georgia federal judge on Friday refused to hand a partial win to Kipper Tool Co. as it battles a False Claims Act suit brought by a former employee, rejecting the company's argument that a portion of the suit is barred by the statute of limitations.

  • April 11, 2025

    GAO Backs Feds' Setback, Co-Location Terms In Lease Deal

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office said the General Services Administration reasonably set colocation and setback requirements in a request for lease proposals to house several agencies in one Wilmington, North Carolina, building, denying a protest that challenged the terms as unnecessary and overly restrictive.

  • April 11, 2025

    ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ Cuts Loose Comerica Suit After Missing Filing Deadline

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday dismissed at least for now its suit against Comerica Bank in Texas federal court that accused the bank of mismanaging a government benefit card program after missing a filing deadline and losing out on a bid to have the action stayed.

  • April 11, 2025

    Feds Say Judge Should Limit Foreign Aid Freeze Injunction

    The Trump administration asked a D.C. federal judge on Friday to commit to dissolving part of a preliminary injunction requiring it to pay all grant recipients and contractors for foreign assistance work done prior to Feb. 13, in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

  • April 11, 2025

    DOGE, OMB Ordered To Ready 1,000s Of Pages In FOIA Suit

    A D.C. federal judge ordered the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Government Efficiency to start processing 1,000 pages of documents per month to potentially hand over to a watchdog group seeking insight into DOGE's "secretive operations," saying DOGE's actions were of "highest national concern."

  • April 11, 2025

    Construction Firm Pushes For $31M Award Against Guatemala

    A construction and engineering firm has argued a magistrate judge correctly recommended enforcement of $31 million in arbitral awards against Guatemala in D.C. federal court, saying the court is the appropriate forum for the case.

  • April 11, 2025

    Kansas City Bank Tries To Sink Ex-Detainees' Debit Fee Case

    Central Bank of Kansas City said Friday that a Washington federal judge should toss a class action from former inmates and detainees who said they were charged illegal debit card fees to regain access to money that was confiscated from them, arguing the lead plaintiff requested his card and knew how to avoid the fees.

  • April 11, 2025

    Permit Suit Can't Sidestep ICE's Immunity, GEO Group Says

    GEO Group Inc. told a New Jersey federal judge that the city of Newark's lawsuit aiming to block development of an immigration detention facility over permitting and inspections can't proceed without naming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a defendant.

  • April 11, 2025

    Judge Says Ex-Prof Can't Thread Needle Of Tenure Bias Claim

    Mercer University defeated a yearslong lawsuit from a former professor who alleged she was denied a tenured position due to her gender, as a Georgia federal judge ruled that the professor was asking the court to become "a super personnel department tasked with looking over the shoulders of a decisionmaker."

  • April 11, 2025

    USDA, White Farmers Clash Over Disaster Aid Remedy

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture and a group of white Texas farmers are clashing over how the agency should remedy its allegedly unlawful prioritization of minority groups as a part of a distribution scheme for disaster assistance and pandemic relief programs.

  • April 11, 2025

    Feds To Try Coal Exec For Bribery Despite FCPA Freeze

    Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania said Friday that they plan to proceed with a case charging a coal executive with bribing foreign officials for business, after reviewing President Donald Trump's order that paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

  • April 11, 2025

    Camp Lejeune Plaintiffs Challenge Gov't Expert Site Visit

    Veterans and family members suing the federal government over injuries from toxic drinking water at Camp Lejeune have urged a North Carolina federal judge to exclude information from an expert's February visit to the base, arguing it was made after a court deadline.

  • April 10, 2025

    GAO Denies Reconsideration Bid For $158M IT Deal Challenge

    A Colorado information technology company challenging a $158 million U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs task order award failed to raise grounds to reconsider the denial of its bid protest, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said Thursday, as the company vowed to press on with its challenge.

  • April 10, 2025

    GSA, Google Ink Deal For Discount On 'Workspace' Pricing

    Google will temporarily offer its Workspace suite to agencies across the federal government at a 71% discount, the tech giant and the U.S. General Services Administration announced Thursday.

Expert Analysis

  • Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team

    Author Photo

    In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.

  • Compliance Lessons From Raytheon's FCPA Settlement

    Author Photo

    A recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act action involving aerospace and defense company Raytheon underscores the importance of risk management related to retaining and overseeing third parties — especially in higher-risk jurisdictions — and the promotion of a companywide culture of compliance, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Top 10 Whistleblowing And Retaliation Events Of 2024

    Author Photo

    From a Florida federal court’s ruling that the False Claims Act’s qui tam provision is unconstitutional to a record-breaking number of whistleblower tips filed with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, employers saw significant developments in the federal and state whistleblower landscapes this year, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US

    Author Photo

    As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Bid Protest Spotlight: Standing, Relationships, Responsibility

    Author Photo

    In this month's bid protest roundup, Alissandra McCann at MoFo examines three recent decisions from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Government Accountability Office, offering helpful reminders about claims court jurisdiction and standing, meaningful-relationship commitment letters, and responsibility determinations.

  • Preparing For More Limber Federal Supply Chain Oversight

    Author Photo

    Ahead of the Federal Acquisition Security Council Improvement Act, which would speed up federal acquisition security risk investigations and federal procurement bans, companies should take steps to identify indirect involvement with foreign adversaries in their supply chains and prepare to respond quickly to a FASC recommendation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025

    Author Photo

    The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.

  • Series

    Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.

  • Opinion

    6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School

    Author Photo

    Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.

  • Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware

    Author Photo

    Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

    Author Photo

    In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity

    Author Photo

    Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Series

    Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

    Author Photo

    For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Inside The Appeals Board's 2024 Report To Congress

    Author Photo

    An in-depth examination of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals’ annual report reveals ​a continuing decline in new cases, motions and hearings, a trend that may correspond with ​t​he increased use of alternative dispute resolution, and expedited or accelerated proceedings, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.

Want to publish in Law360?


Submit an idea

Have a news tip?


Contact us here
Can't find the article you're looking for? Click here to search the Government Contracts archive.
Hello! I'm Law360's automated support bot.

How can I help you today?

For example, you can type:
  • I forgot my password
  • I took a free trial but didn't get a verification email
  • How do I sign up for a newsletter?
Ask a question!