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Cozen O'Connor

Federal Judge Blocks Portions of Department of Labor Rulemaking on Davis-Bacon Act

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On Monday, June 24, 2024, a federal judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the Court) instituted a nationwide injunction on the enforcement of portions of the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2023...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Don’t Overlook Your Subcontracts on Federal Projects

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals’ (“ASBCA or “Board”) decision in Fluor Intercontinental, Inc., serves as an important reminder to prime contractors to be cognizant of the clauses they include in subcontracts for...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Accord and Satisfaction: To Release, or Not Release? That is the Question.

Generally, an “accord and satisfaction” is an agreement between two or more contracting parties to accept an alternate agreement and performance in lieu of a preexisting contractual duty between the parties. The new...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Assumptions Will Make a Fool out of You and the Reasonableness of your Delay-Related Costs Claim

Author(s) Sydney M. Warren In one of its recent opinions, Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. v. Sec’y of the Army, the Federal Circuit issued new guidance on what contractors must show to prove the reasonableness of costs...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Subcontractor Certification of Pass-Through Claim — Defective but Correctable

In June, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) addressed whether it had jurisdiction where a subcontractor pass-through claim was certified under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) by the subcontractor’s...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

ASBCA Rejects Government’s Frivolous Fraud Defense

Many of our clients have noticed that the Government is increasingly using accusations of contractor fraud as a defense to valid claims, even when there is no evidence that the contractor intended to deceive the government. ...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Limited Applicability of the Severin Doctrine

A recent Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) decision discusses the Severin doctrine and its impact on subcontractor pass-through claims, confirming that this defense to liability may only be used in very limited...more

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