A New Tool to Combat Cybersecurity Breaches: DOJ Opens Door for Whistleblowers to Report Cyber-Fraud on Federal Contractors
Authors: Mark Blando & Robby Dube[1] On October 6, 2021, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the Department of Justice’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative.[2] The Cyber-Fraud Initiative will utilize the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. (“FCA”) to...
SBA Proposes New Size Standards for Wholesale and Retail Trade Industries
Qualifying as a small business under the Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) size standards opens a wealth of opportunities for businesses seeking to contract with the federal government. In deter mining the size of a business under SBA regulations, the SBA looks...
“An Awkward Tool that Outlived its Purpose”: The Kafkaesque Jurisdictional Dance of 28 U.S.C. § 1500
Congress designed the United States Court of Federal Claims (“COFC”) to be the prime venue for plaintiffs to sue the United States federal government for contractual and property disputes. But subsequent interpretations of its jurisdictional statute have betrayed this...
So Good It’s a Service: The Changing Legal Perspective on Computer Software
A cutting-edge legal issue prevalent across many contracts, both commercial and government, is the question of how to treat computer software: is it a service or good? This has substantial implications for the applicability of the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) to a...
A Solution to the Single-Claimant Stipulation Problem – Roen Salvage Company v. Sarter
The stipulation preceding the district court’s stay of a limitation proceeding involving a single claimant is both simplistic formulism and the cause of prolonged headaches for maritime attorneys and courts. Too often attorneys treat the stipulation as being...
Welcome to Midwest Maritime Lawyer
Welcome to Midwest Maritime Lawyer! This publication is moored on a straightforward principle: admiralty and maritime law matters in the Midwest. By its very design, maritime law is universal, setting to apply a uniform legal regime to issues involving the navigable...