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February 28, 2025
Strict Mandates In Contracting Order May Undercut Efficiency
An executive order proposing to bring more transparency and efficiency to federal contracting could undermine any efficiency gains by putting additional compliance burdens on an already-strained acquisition workforce that is set to shrink further under the Trump administration.
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February 28, 2025
Trump Still Isn't Obeying Order To Free FEMA Funds, AGs Say
The Trump administration still has not restored millions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds as part of a temporary restraining order barring a freeze on funding for federal grant and aid programs, a coalition of states told a Rhode Island federal judge Friday, asking the court to enforce its order.
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February 28, 2025
Ex-Iranian Intel Official Accused Of Torture In Fla. Suit
A former top Iranian intelligence official was accused of human rights abuses in a Florida federal lawsuit brought by three California men, alleging he played a major role in maintaining the deposed shah's repressive regime through the arrest, mass torture and imprisonment of perceived political dissidents.
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February 28, 2025
Up Next At High Court: Gun Violence Liability & Nuclear Waste
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to consider Mexico's attempt to hold gun manufacturers and distributors liable for cartel-related gun violence and a nuclear waste site dispute that could determine who can challenge future agency actions.
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February 28, 2025
Insurer Settles $6.7M Jet Engine Damage Dispute
An insurer for a subsidiary of aerospace and defense giant RTX Corp. told a Connecticut federal court it has settled its subrogation action against various contractors over more than $6.7 million in coverage the insurer said it paid for a jet engine damaged in a truck crash.
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February 28, 2025
Space Co. Lied About Rocket Launch Timeline, Investors Say
Aerospace company Rocket Lab USA Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in California federal court alleging it intentionally concealed issues that would delay the test and commercial launches of a vehicle it developed.
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February 28, 2025
Software Engineer Faces Prison For Sharing Info With China
A Southern California man has pled guilty to downloading sensitive technology from a former employer and using it to market his own competing business to a company in China, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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February 28, 2025
3M Wants Texas 'Forever Chemical' Suit Tossed
3M Co. told a Texas federal judge that the Lone Star State's lawsuit accusing chemical manufacturers of selling forever chemical-containing products despite knowing they present health risks to humans should be tossed because the court doesn't have jurisdiction over the companies.
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February 28, 2025
NC Man Admits Ploy To Export Military Tech To China
The owner of a Raleigh, North Carolina-based electronics resale company pled guilty on Friday in federal court to scheming to send American military technology to China without the proper license.
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February 27, 2025
States Say DOD Transgender Ban Puts Public Safety At Risk
Twenty-one states on Wednesday threw their support behind transgender service members and human rights organizations challenging the Trump administration's executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military, arguing that it will harm their efforts to protect their communities.
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February 27, 2025
Feds Can't Dodge Firefighting Foam Suits Yet, SC Judge Rules
A South Carolina federal judge on Thursday denied the U.S. government's push to escape dozens of suits over contamination allegedly stemming from its use of forever chemical-containing firefighting foams, saying cases involving a military base in New Mexico showed its global motion to dismiss to be inappropriate.
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February 27, 2025
Alsup Halts 'Illegal' Firings Of Probationary Federal Workers
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Thursday temporarily blocked the mass firings of probationary federal employees ordered by President Donald Trump's administration, determining that the Office of Personnel Management illegally directed government agencies to terminate the probationary employees without authority to do so from Congress.
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February 27, 2025
CORRECTED: FCC OKs 1st Rules For Spectrum Auction Since 2020
The Federal Communications Commission got the ball rolling Thursday on its first set of rules for selling spectrum since 2020, signaling that it was ready to consider an update to the process.
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February 27, 2025
Boeing Rep Must Testify Again In Folded Airline's 737 Max Suit
A Washington federal judge has partly sided with a defunct South African airline in the latest discovery row in a lawsuit against Boeing over a soured 737 Max deal, ordering the aerospace giant to prepare for another deposition after past corporate representatives purportedly couldn't answer basic questions.
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February 27, 2025
Magnet Co. Execs To Plead Guilty For Emailing Info To China
Two magnetics manufacturing company executives have agreed to enter a plea of guilty for their role in emailing schematics from U.S. Department of Defense contractors to Chinese companies and will face three years behind bars.
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February 27, 2025
Relator Fights Discovery Ruling In FCA Suit Against AECOM
A whistleblower accusing AECOM of falsely billing the U.S. Army on a $1.9 billion contract urged a New York federal judge to rethink a decision to deny discovery requests, arguing the company improperly withheld information it's now asserting in a summary judgment bid.
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February 27, 2025
Judge Gives CIA Green Light To Fire Intelligence Officers
A Virginia federal judge knocked down a request Thursday from a group of CIA officers for a temporary restraining order that would have blocked their firings, following President Donald Trump's executive order directing federal agencies to terminate diversity, equity and inclusion officers.
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February 26, 2025
High Court Halts Trump's Wed. Night Deadline To Restore Aid
The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday paused a Washington, D.C., federal judge's late-night deadline ordering the Trump administration to restore nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance funding.
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February 26, 2025
Judge Says VA Could Exclude $14B Consulting Deal Bid
A Court of Federal Claims judge has rejected a protest over a company's exclusion from a $14 billion multiaward consulting contract, saying the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs appropriately determined the firm wasn't qualified for the deal.
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February 26, 2025
GAO Says Bidder Misunderstood Army Deal Requirements
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest by Operations Services Inc. challenging the Army's award of a $7.3 million task order to another bidder, saying the company's protest is premised on a misunderstanding of the solicitation requirements.
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February 26, 2025
Trump Orders Fed Agencies To Plan For Large Layoffs
The White House is telling federal agencies to submit plans for "large-scale" layoffs by mid-March, accusing them of siphoning funding for "unproductive and unnecessary programs" and "not producing results for the American public."
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February 26, 2025
Dems Pan Trump Reversal On US Weapons Order
The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee condemned the Trump administration's decision to scrap an order requiring potential international law violations involving U.S.-supplied weapons to be reported to Congress, calling it "a step backward."
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February 26, 2025
Honeywell Can't Ship Pension Calculations Fight To NC
Honeywell can't move a proposed class action alleging it miscalculated and underpaid retirees' pension benefits to its home state of North Carolina, an Illinois federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding that retirement plan terms allowing the company to dictate the forum don't apply to the worker leading the suit.
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February 26, 2025
GAO Says $35B Satellite System Needs Better Development
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said Wednesday that the Space Development Agency is pushing ahead with a $35 billion missile warning satellite system without its laser communications system fully working, creating the risk the system may not work as intended.
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February 26, 2025
SDA Chief Revealed Bid Info To $254M Awardee, Report Says
The Space Development Agency has made public an internal report confirming that its director revealed bidding information to Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems prior to awarding it a $254 million contract.
Expert Analysis
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Inside New Commerce Tech Restrictions: Mitigation Strategies
Given the breadth of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s authority under new restrictions on foreign adversary products and technologies, companies should assess their risk of falling in the agency's crosshairs and, if so, engage with BIS ahead of any enforcement action, says Peter Jeydel at Troutman Pepper Locke.
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What's Next For Accounting Enforcement After SEC's Big 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration will likely continue to focus enforcement efforts on many of the same accounting and auditing issues that it pursued over the past year — but other areas, such as ESG, internal controls and cryptocurrency cases, may fall out of focus, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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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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Key Trends In PFAS Regulation And Litigation For 2025
The critical policy milestones for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances expected in 2025 will not only shape the trajectory of PFAS regulation, but also set key precedents for environmental accountability, potentially reshaping the corporate approach to these "forever chemicals" for decades to come, say attorneys at MG+M.
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Inside New Commerce Tech Restrictions: Key Risk Takeaways
While there are a few limitations on the scope of a new final rule restricting certain foreign adversary products and technologies, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security retains sweeping authority to regulate an array of risk areas, says Peter Jeydel at Troutman.
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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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Managing Litigation Side-Switching During 2nd Trump Admin
Now that the new presidential administration is in place, the government will likely switch positions in a number of pending cases, and stakeholders should employ strategies to protect their interests, say attorneys at Covington.
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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.