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President Biden Releases FY 2025 Budget: What’s NOT in It?

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Earlier this week, President Biden released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 President’s Budget. As a reminder, every year, the White House releases a budget that serves as its official funding request to Congress for the following...more

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Déjà Vu for Federal Contractors with Salary History Ban?

On January 30, 2024, the Biden administration proposed a rule (the Salary Rule) that would amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to “prohibit contractors and subcontractors from seeking and considering information...more

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Health-Care Fraud Scrutiny Heats Up For Companies, Providers

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This year will see a continued proliferation of enforcement against health-care fraud, with old and new theories. Some hot spots for enforcement will involve cases about new technologies; data outliers; entities perceived as...more

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Federal Leasing 2023: The Year in Review

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This is the first edition of Holland & Knight's Federal Real Estate Leasing Year in Review. For years, our GSA Leasing & Federal Real Estate Team has worked with LexisNexis to provide updated versions of the Federal...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - November 2023

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USPTO News - On October 23, 2023, the USPTO Office of the Chief Economist released a report detailing patenting activity related to COVID-19 diagnostic technology....more

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OFCCP Week In Review: May 2023 #3

Wednesday, May 10, 2023: U.S. Office of Personnel Management Announced Proposed Rule on Pay Equity for Federal Workers - Proposal Would Ban Consideration of Job Applicant’s Prior Salary in Hiring & Setting Pay - The...more

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Biden Administration Ends Certain COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements

Orders that cover federal employees and contractors, air travel, healthcare facilities, and insurance cost-sharing are expiring as Public Health Emergency also ends - On May 1, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the...more

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Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Effectively Halts Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate

On May 1, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (SFWTF) issued an update that the Biden administration plans to end COVID-19 vaccination mandates established under Executive Orders (EO) 14042 on Ensuring Adequate COVID...more

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate

With the end of the federal pandemic emergency declaration next month, employers may have thought that the legal wars over COVID-19 vaccination mandates may end as well. However, the Biden administration and anti-vaccination...more

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Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Will End on May 12

On May 1, the Biden Administration announced that the federal contractor and subcontractor (“Contractor”) vaccine mandate (the “Contractor Vaccine Requirement”) issued by the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task...more

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Feds officially end vax requirement for contractors

You may have forgotten this was even “a thing.” Remember back in 2021 when President Biden issued Executive Order 14042, which required many federal contractors to ensure that employees working on federal contracts had...more

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What Remains of the COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate, and What Insights Can Federal Contractors Draw From the Experience?

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Ask someone you know about the COVID-19 vaccination requirements for contractors, and you might get an, “Oh yeah, what happened to that?” Issued in early September 2021, Executive Order (EO) 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID...more

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COVID-19 May Be Over, but Fight Over the Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Is Not

On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration stated that it intends to extend the previously declared COVID-19 national emergency and the separately declared public health emergency until May 11, 2023, and then end both...more

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: January 24, 2023

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. This week's topics include: ...more

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Sixth Circuit Upholds Block of Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

On January 12, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld most of a district court’s injunction blocking the federal contractor vaccine mandate in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. In its decision, the...more

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Fifth Circuit Backs Block on Contractor Vaccine Mandate

These days, efforts by the federal government to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for various groups seem like ancient history. Nevertheless, federal courts continue hearing challenges to the mandates filed by state governments,...more

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Fifth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Blocking Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

On December 19, 2022, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 federal contractor vaccine mandate. The 2-1 panel...more

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Biden Vaccine Mandate Blocked

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The Fifth Circuit in Louisiana v. Biden upheld a Louisiana federal district court in blocking President Biden’s vaccine mandate on December 19, 2022, in a 2-1 decision, prohibiting the Biden administration from enforcing the...more

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DOJ’s Quixotic Defense of the Vaccine Mandate May Undermine Presidential Authority

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As we have discussed at length on this blog, for more than a year federal courts have repeatedly held that, for various reasons, President Biden lacked the authority to mandate by executive order that government contractors...more

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Contractor Vaccine Mandate Still On Hold, For Now

The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force recently issued updated guidance on the federal contractor vaccine mandate and COVID-19 safety requirements. At least for now, the government is still not taking steps to mandate...more

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Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Issues New Statement on Vaccine Mandate

On December 7, 2021, in Georgia v. Biden, Case No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the...more

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IT’S ALIVE! The Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate, Back for One More Round

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Unbelievably, after the 11th Circuit narrowed the nationwide injunction issued by the Southern District of Georgia on August 30, which took effect when the court issued its mandate on October 18, the government began...more

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Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Looks to Return, With Potential Updates

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As we previously reported, on August 26, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision narrowing the nationwide injunction against the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractor employees...more

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Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements: Are Changes Coming?

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Just over a year ago, President Biden issued an Executive Order requiring federal agencies to amend all contracts to mandate compliance with Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task Force”) guidance. The Task Force then...more

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Contracting by Executive Order: Courts and Congress Push Back on Contractors’ Behalf

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Federal contractors are all too familiar with having new requirements imposed through executive orders, which often direct the creation of new Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses to be inserted into government...more

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