/governmentcontracts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Government Contracts Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ă˝. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:15:49 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350544?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350544 R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco producers have accused Philip Morris USA of trying to derail a deal with Washington state last spring to resolve longstanding payment disputes stemming from Big Tobacco's 1998 master settlement agreement, according to a new lawsuit in Washington state court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:41:38 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2349973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2349973 The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals said the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must pay an oxygen equipment supplier more than $133,000 in delivery fees, finding no support for the agency's position that the fees are limited to "one-time or one-off type" deliveries. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:28:11 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2348758?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2348758 The U.S. Supreme Court halted discovery Friday into whether the Department of Government Efficiency is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act, but left the door open to future, more tailored inquiries about the inner workings of the initiative. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:27:32 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2349368?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2349368 The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court's latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:28:08 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350551?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350551 Washington appellate judges expressed skepticism on Friday regarding an ambulance company's stance that qualified immunity shielded it from a patient estate's $2.3 million jury verdict over a mid-transport crash, while also casting doubt on the family's contention that the defendant had forfeited its appeal rights. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:26:52 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350513 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday rejecting the Ninth Circuit's outlier interpretation of a jurisdictional question in a $1.3 billion arbitral award enforcement case came as no surprise to arbitration experts, who say they will nevertheless continue closely watching the case to see how outstanding issues are resolved. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:54:22 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350579?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350579 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday closed a "gaping jurisdictional loophole" that allowed defendants to challenge jurisdiction in just about any case involving multiple plaintiffs, saying the mere presence of multiple plaintiffs is not enough to invoke appellate review. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:34:34 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350458 A New York federal judge on Thursday rebuffed an attempt from CVS Health Corp. to evade responsibility in a False Claims Act case, after a jury found that its subsidiary Omnicare bilked the federal government out of over $135 million in fraudulent drug claims.  Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:54:20 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350384?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350384 The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest to a $44.3 million task order the U.S. Navy issued for engineering and installation services for a new U.S. Space Command facility in Colorado, saying it reasonably weighed proposals two Georgia companies submitted. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:48:50 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350325?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350325 A split D.C. Circuit panel refused to block the reinstatement of the head of a federal agency that invests in Latin America and the Caribbean, concluding that the Trump administration's firing of the official was "likely invalid." Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:11:48 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2348647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2348647 ​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. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:05:51 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2349915?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2349915 Peru breached its U.S. trade agreement by imposing $417 million in penalties and interest on the unpaid royalties of an Arizona-based mining company's local operator, the company said while asking international arbiters to partially annul an award that it claimed mistakenly ignored the issue. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:02:15 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350375?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350375 A South Carolina company that challenged a $215 million task order for IT support services the U.S. Navy awarded to another firm failed to show the Navy botched its evaluation and comparison of their competing proposals, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found in a decision released Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:30:19 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350319?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350319 The former CEO of a defense industry supplier has settled his lawsuit alleging he was duped into taking the job by a North Carolina private equity firm and then fired for refusing to go along with fibs about its financial future to a major client, according to a notice filed Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2342370 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 Â鶹´«Ă˝ School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:06:03 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350287?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350287 In this week's Off The Bench, an appeals court says Michael Jordan's auto racing team cannot compete amid an antitrust suit against NASCAR, the Chicago White Sox start a long ownership transfer process, and the woman who accused a college football coach of sexual harassment sues the university over its handling of the complaint. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:14:40 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350081?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350081 A "sparse and self-serving" record provided by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management still shows the agency unlawfully directed federal agencies to fire probationary employees en masse, so a California federal court can reach a final decision now and "unwind" those terminations, a coalition including unions and advocacy groups said Thursday. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:25:40 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2349988?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2349988 The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled taxi permits that weren't recognized by a county jurisdiction after a special district was dissolved don't constitute an unconstitutional taking by the government without compensation, saying the state Legislature repealed the licenses' property rights in 2017. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:24:09 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350096?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350096 A group of environmental and food sustainability nonprofits hit the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a lawsuit in D.C. federal court Thursday, accusing the Trump administration of unconstitutionally exceeding its authority by abruptly rescinding nearly 600 grants via "minimally edited form letters" that had errors and lacked detailed explanations. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:57:05 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2350027?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2350027 A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups and criminal defense lawyers sued the Trump administration in D.C. federal court Thursday, alleging its agreement with El Salvador to imprison deported noncitizens for as much as $20,000 per person violates federal law.