On May 19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative (the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative), which will use the federal False Claims Act (FCA) to pursue claims against recipients...more
5/22/2025
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
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Employer Responsibilities ,
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
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Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
On April 2, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia dismissed a whistleblower’s False Claims Act (FCA) action after the relator attempted to dismiss the government as a plaintiff-intervenor in...more
According to an April 1 Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, DRI Relays Inc. (DRI), a subsidiary of TE Connectivity Corporation (TEC) and manufacturer of electrical relays and sockets used on military platforms, agreed...more
On March 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal, terminating a Maryland district court’s injunction of certain elements of President Trump’s January 20...more
3/18/2025
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Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fifth Amendment ,
First Amendment ,
Injunctions ,
Trump Administration
On February 21, the Maryland District Court issued an injunction prohibiting the administration from implementing requirements in Executive Order (EO) 14151, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and...more
As we reported previously, President Trump’s January 21 Executive Order (EO) 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” terminated certain affirmative action requirements applicable to...more
2/10/2025
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Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Attorney General ,
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
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Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Policies ,
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Trump Administration
In addition to the Trump administration’s general freeze on most grant funding, which was rescinded as well as enjoined by federal district courts in Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., the new administration yesterday took...more
As we detailed in a previous blog, on October 3, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a strategic plan to “safeguard[] the integrity of HHS grants and contracts.” The...more
10/24/2024
/ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
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False Billing ,
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Fraud ,
Grants ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Care Violations ,
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Settlement ,
TRICARE
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
After we published our article last week about the status of the four federal vaccine mandates, we learned that a seventh district court had enjoined the federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate, continuing a remarkable...more
2/1/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employees ,
Employer Mandates ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Injunctions ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
Popular ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing
As we previously reported, on November 30, the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (ED of KY) enjoined the government “from enforcing the vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in all...more
12/7/2021
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Biden Administration ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
State and Local Government ,
Stays ,
Subcontractors ,
Vaccinations
In an opinion first publicly released on November 3, the Court of Federal Claims (COFC) took the somewhat usual, but not unheard of, step of sanctioning the government for mishandling the administrative record (AR) in a bid...more
The five cases challenging the contractor vaccine mandate filed in various district courts by 22 states, which we discussed on this blog last week, continue to develop. Motions for preliminary injunctions have now been filed...more
11/11/2021
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Constitutional Challenges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employer Mandates ,
Federal Contractors ,
Injunctions ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
OSHA ,
State and Local Government ,
Stays ,
Vaccinations
The recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) injected previously unthinkable amounts of stimulus funds into the struggling U.S. economy. To oversee the disbursement of these funds and to...more
This Post at a Glance -
- Company made false statements related to import duty charges
- Investigation initiated by whistleblower complaint from company’s competitor
- Trump Administration likely to impose...more
2/21/2018
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China ,
Countervailing Duties ,
Customs ,
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False Claims Act (FCA) ,
False Statements ,
Fraud ,
Furniture Industry ,
Government Investigations ,
Imports ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Tariff Classifications ,
Trump Administration ,
Underpayment ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblowers