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February 24, 2025
Comerica Bank Wants Dismissal Of CFPB's Benefits Card Suit
Comerica Bank has urged a Texas federal judge to toss a suit brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, accusing the bank of multiple failures in administering a government benefits card program, arguing the case overextends the agency's authority, among other things.
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February 24, 2025
DC Circ. To Hear Judge Newman's Appeal In April
The D.C. Circuit has set a date in April to hear an appeal from Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, who is fighting her suspension from the bench for refusing to undergo medical tests.
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February 24, 2025
Md. Judge Blocks DOGE Access To Education, OPM Data
A Maryland federal judge on Monday prohibited the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Personnel Management from continuing to share with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency the sensitive information of federal employees and student aid recipients, saying the agencies likely have violated federal privacy law.
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February 24, 2025
Claims Court Can Hear $650M Other Transaction Deal Dispute
A Court of Federal Claims judge has declined to dismiss Raytheon's protest over a $648.5 million Missile Defense Agency interceptor development deal, saying it clearly fits within the court's jurisdiction over Other Transaction Authority agreements.
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February 24, 2025
Wellpath Delays Chapter 11 Exit To Buy Time For Creditor Deal
Wellpath will delay confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan by two weeks to buy time to work through objections to the reorganization of its prison healthcare business, attorneys told a Texas bankruptcy judge Monday.
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February 24, 2025
Engineering Co.'s $4.1M Claims Axed In Army Corps Dispute
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals has dismissed an engineering company's claims seeking $4.1 million in damages after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers terminated a Mexico City-based construction contract, saying the court lacks jurisdiction.
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February 24, 2025
GAO Sinks Protest Over Army Corps Solicitation Amendment
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has said the Army Corps of Engineers rightly changed a solicitation to remove the requirement that solicitors attach a project labor agreement, denying a construction contractor's protest of the change.
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February 24, 2025
Mass. City Says Ex-Team Owners Reneged On Stadium Fees
The city of Brockton, Massachusetts, claims in a lawsuit filed in state court that the former owners of a minor league baseball team owe the economically struggling community more than $68,000 for the use of a city-owned stadium for games and a concert last year.
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February 24, 2025
Mass. Cities Sue Over Trump's Sanctuary City 'Bullying'
Two Massachusetts cities have sued the Trump administration to block its "illegal campaign of bullying and intimidation" that threatens to strip federal funding from sanctuary cities that limit local law enforcement involvement with federal immigration enforcement.
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February 24, 2025
Supreme Court Skips Fee-Shifting, IP Web Scraping Questions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected petitions involving fee-shifting in copyright cases, whether judges or juries should decide what can be copyrighted, and if scraping public information online should be considered hacking under the Defend Trade Secrets Act when it is done by a computer.
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February 21, 2025
Trump Blocked From Implementing Anti-DEI Orders, For Now
A Maryland federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from implementing the bulk of his executive orders aiming to slash diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the public and private sectors, ruling that the orders are likely unconstitutionally vague and illegally restrict free speech.
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February 21, 2025
Trump Fires Top Military Commander CQ Brown
President Donald Trump announced in a social media post Friday that he dismissed Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown Jr. as the Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, inserting politics into his selection of the country's top military officer with a dig at the former administration's decision not to promote Trump's intended nominee.
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February 21, 2025
Army Corps Contract Releases Not Clear On Rust Remediation
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals rejected the Army Corps of Engineers' attempt to evade a challenge from Sauer Construction LLC, saying there's a genuine issue of material fact whether the contractor's rust remediation claim is preempted by previous contract modifications.
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February 21, 2025
Judge Questions Trump Administration Fund Freeze Authority
A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday left in place a temporary restraining order blocking a funding freeze by President Donald Trump's administration until the judge can rule on a request by a coalition of states for a preliminary injunction.
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February 21, 2025
NFL Alums Accused Of Misusing COVID Outreach Funding
The National Football League's largest alumni organization has been accused by a biotechnology company of trying to misuse Georgia taxpayer dollars intended for a COVID-19 vaccine education program before unlawfully breaking their contract last year.
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February 21, 2025
Funds For Migrant Child Representation Unfrozen After Outcry
Legal service providers that help unaccompanied children navigate the immigration court system got word on Friday they can resume their work, just days after the federal government abruptly turned off the federal funding tap.
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February 21, 2025
Billionaire's Tax Privacy Suit Against Booz Allen Proceeds
A billionaire's lawsuit against government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton blaming it for the theft of his tax returns in an unprecedented breach by a Booz Allen employee working at the IRS can move forward, a Maryland federal court ruled Friday, rejecting a bid to toss the case.
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February 21, 2025
Veolia Ends One Of Few Remaining Flint Water Suits For $53M
A water engineering firm on Friday said it will pay $53 million to settle claims from the state of Michigan and thousands of Flint residents who allege the company failed to properly identify corrosion control treatment issues or alert officials to the dangers of the city's water, prolonging the water crisis.
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February 21, 2025
LGBTQ+ Health Orgs Aim To Halt Trump DEI, Gender Orders
Three executive orders by President Donald Trump barring federal contractors from pushing "gender ideology" and diversity-related programs violate the U.S. Constitution, a group of nonprofit LGBTQ+ organizations told a California federal court.
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February 21, 2025
Fed. Circ. Scraps Ruling On $14M Army Corps Contract Row
A contract appeals board didn't fully consider the entirety of a modified contract before determining a company tapped to provide emergency power services in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico was not entitled to a $14 million claim, a Federal Circuit panel ruled.
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February 21, 2025
NIH Research Cuts Stay On Hold As Judge Mulls Objections
A Boston federal judge on Friday extended her hold on a Trump administration proposal to slash reimbursements from the National Institutes of Health for research grant costs, a move colleges, hospitals and other institutions have said would wreak havoc on scientific research.
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February 21, 2025
High Court Finds FCC's E-Rate Subject To False Claims Act
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday that telecoms participating in the federal E-Rate program supporting school and library connectivity can be sued for excess payouts under the False Claims Act because the subsidy's funds are provided through the U.S. Treasury.
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February 20, 2025
Trump Admin Must Obey Order To Restore Aid, Judge Says
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore foreign assistance funding in accordance with his temporary restraining order, but stopped short of sanctioning the government officials.
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February 20, 2025
COVID Fraud Drove Record FCA Caseload, Gov't Officials Say
Federal officials said that the record-setting number of whistleblower False Claims Act cases filed in 2024 was likely driven by COVID-19-related fraud, with the use of data mining having an outsized role in those cases.
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February 20, 2025
Boston, Other Cities And MassBio Back Challenge To NIH Cuts
The city of Boston and 44 other cities, counties and elected officials around the country and, separately, the life sciences industry group Massachusetts Biotechnology Council asked a Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday to extend a temporary restraining order blocking steep cuts to National Institutes of Health reimbursement for research projects.
Expert Analysis
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.
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Takeaways From DOJ Fraud Section's 2024 Year In Review
Attorneys at Paul Weiss highlight notable developments in the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section’s recently released annual report, and discuss what the second Trump administration could mean for enforcement in the year to come.
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4 Employment Law Areas Set To Change Under Trump
President Donald Trump's second term is expected to bring significant changes to the U.S. employment law landscape, including the potential for updated worker classification regulations, and challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion that are already taking shape, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.
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'Key Personnel' Defense Is Trending In GAO Bid Protests
A trio of recent cases before the U.S. Government Accountability Office demonstrate that both the government and intervenors are increasingly defending bid protests by arguing that a protester's key personnel became unavailable after a proposal submission, but prior to an award, says Joshua Duvall at Maynard Nexsen.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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3 Noteworthy Effects Of The 2025 NDAA
The 2025 defense budget includes further restrictions on semiconductor sales to Huawei, requiring companies to rethink customer-base oversight, but other provisions are likely to broaden procurement contract opportunities, say attorneys at Miles & Stockbridge.
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FTC Privacy Enforcement Takeaways From 2024
In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission distinguished three prominent trends in its privacy-related enforcement actions: geolocation data protections, data minimization practices, and artificial intelligence use and marketing, say Cobun Zweifel-Keegan at IAPP and James Smith at Dechert.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Public Corruption Enforcement In 2024 Has Clues For 2025
If 2024 activity is any indication, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely continue to rein in expansive prosecutorial theories of fraud in the year to come, but it’s harder to predict what the new administration will mean for public corruption prosecutions in 2025, says Cathy Fleming at Offit Kurman.
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Anticipating How GAO Pleading Standards May Shift
The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act's mandate to create an enhanced pleading standard at the U.S. Government Accountability Office may change the calculus for where to file when challenging a U.S. Department of Defense procurement, say attorneys at Rogers Joseph.
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How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark
All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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5 Notable Information Security Events In 2024
B. Stephanie Siegmann at Hinckley Allen discusses 2024's largest and most destructive data breaches seen yet, ranging from ransomware disrupting U.S. healthcare systems on a massive scale, to tensions increasing between the U.S. and China over cyberespionage and the control of U.S. data.