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April 08, 2026
Major shipbuilders have asked a Virginia federal court to override a magistrate judge's decision permitting a former naval engineer to amend her lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to suppress naval architect and engineer wages, arguing the plaintiff waited too long to add another engineer.
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April 08, 2026
A Florida state appeals court issued a split opinion Wednesday upholding a lower court decision favoring a commercial developer in a dispute over the construction of a pump station, ruling a city can't rely on the introductory language of a contract to avoid paying cost reimbursements.
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April 08, 2026
A Michigan appellate panel heard arguments Wednesday over whether a school safety funding provision unlawfully forces districts to waive legal privileges in the event of a mass casualty investigation, with school districts saying the law is unconstitutionally vague and the state countering that it applies only to entities, not individuals.
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April 08, 2026
A Texas state appeals court did away with an order awarding three whistleblowers a $37 million share of the state's settlement resolving Medicaid fraud allegations against Xerox, finding their respective cases over the alleged scheme were based on publicly available information.
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April 08, 2026
South Jersey powerbroker George Norcross and his brother, Parker McCay PA shareholder Philip A. Norcross, asked a New Jersey state court this week to toss a civil racketeering suit from a real estate developer, which closely tracked a now-dismissed criminal indictment, arguing the allegations were settled in previous litigation and are time-barred.
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April 08, 2026
A nursing home administrator who participated in a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development whistleblower investigation into alleged false payment claims and a healthcare facility operator agreed to end a lawsuit over his firing, according to a stipulation filed in Colorado federal court Wednesday.
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April 08, 2026
Prison operator GEO Group Inc. has asked a Colorado federal judge to pause a forced labor class action brought by former immigrant detainees and certify an appeal for the Tenth Circuit to weigh a question about government contractor immunity that could end the case.
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April 07, 2026
Premera Blue Cross sued a weight loss clinic on Monday in Washington federal court saying it abused a federal law aimed at safeguarding patients from unexpected medical bills in order to shake down the insurer for exorbitant amounts of money — as much as 10 times what Premera pays in-network providers.
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April 07, 2026
The Ninth Circuit held Monday that a district court's award of $8.7 million in fees and expenses to attorneys representing a whistleblower who claimed Academy Mortgage submitted false insurance claims was too high, saying the case is not "exceptional," and the court didn't justify its lodestar multiplier of 1.75.
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April 07, 2026
A Federal Circuit judge appeared skeptical on Tuesday of the government's position that it doesn't owe a subcontractor money for work under an Air Force task order where the prime contractor never submitted invoices, asking whether there's concern about "a chilling effect on contractors."
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April 07, 2026
The government's star witness took the stand Tuesday in the criminal case against former U.S. Rep. David Rivera of Florida, telling jurors that Rivera and others kept a $50 million consulting contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company quiet because of concerns about how it would be perceived in Miami.
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April 07, 2026
A slew of urban hospitals, including a dozen Indian Health Service entities, are asking a D.C. federal court to invalidate a two-year Health and Human Services wage index methodology for Medicare reimbursements, alleging it assigned lower adjustments for rural hospitals in their states.
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April 07, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge on Monday denied the state's preliminary injunction request to release $243 million in Medicaid funds deferred by the federal government during a fraud investigation, holding that the "unprecedented" size and scope of the deferral action doesn't mean the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services isn't legally cleared to pursue the action.
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April 07, 2026
The U.S. Department of Defense urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject DJI's reconsideration petition after the FCC restricted much of the China-based drone maker's business in the U.S., saying the government's underlying national security determination is correct.
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April 07, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday blocked seven people convicted of crimes from participating in the agency's numerous subsidy programs that are meant to bolster telecom service throughout the United States.
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April 07, 2026
A coalition of journalists, federal employees and their unions has urged a D.C. federal judge to enforce an order requiring the Trump administration to share its plan for reinstating more than a thousand journalists and staff at Voice of America, arguing that the administration has "disregarded" its responsibility to do so.
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April 07, 2026
The Texas attorney general on Tuesday announced investigations into dozens of Medicaid providers across Texas, claiming that data from the Department of Government Efficiency led to the fraud allegations.
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April 07, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Tuesday that it has strengthened its government contracts practice group with an Austin, Texas-based partner and a Washington, D.C.-based associate who both came aboard from DLA Piper.
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April 07, 2026
Disputed or unliquidated costs, including delay and disruption damages, can be included in claims under Colorado's Public Works Act, the state's highest court has ruled, reviving a subcontractor's bid to recover a roughly $13 million claim tied to a Denver-area rail project.
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April 06, 2026
Federal actions threaten the National Center for Atmospheric Research's ability to forecast and prepare for weather disasters, a nonprofit research consortium said, urging a Colorado federal judge to block federal agencies and their leadership from taking further steps to dismantle the center.
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April 06, 2026
A Federal Circuit judge appeared skeptical on Monday over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' about-face on the technical acceptability of a construction company's contract proposal, pressing a government attorney to explain how a once-acceptable proposal now has multiple deficiencies.
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April 06, 2026
Chicago and other municipalities again urged an Illinois federal court to enforce its preliminary injunction stopping the federal government from freezing and withholding funding for a U.S. Department of Homeland Security shelter program, saying they're still awaiting reimbursement for certain costs incurred before the government's grant terminations.
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April 06, 2026
Major pharmaceutical and business associations urged the Fourth Circuit to reconsider a panel decision that revived a whistleblower lawsuit accusing an Allergan Sales LLC predecessor of overcharging Medicaid, warning it threatens to become a road map for False Claims Act abuses.
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April 06, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission exempted a prison phone service provider for now from a per-minute cap on video call rates under the Martha Wright-Reed Act.
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April 06, 2026
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace, who now leads a False Claims Act task force at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, is predicting a continued surge in enforcement as the Trump administration wields the law in new ways.