Blogs
To Classify or Not to Classify? – Demystifying the Declassification Process
The Pentagon Papers; the Guantanamo Bay documents leak; the Snowden files.[1] Once again, the classification and declassification of Government documents has been a hot topic in the news. However, despite the extensive coverage and polarized opinions on the matter,...
Department of Defense Offers Guidance to Contractors Battling Inflation
Few government contractors who negotiated contracts prior to 2021 could have foreseen the rampant inflation that the economy has seen in recent months.[1] In fact, the Federal Reserve continued to refer to pandemic-related inflation as “transitory” up until the end of...
ITAR: Breaking the Law to Comply with it
The Department of Justice has created an unworkable regulatory scheme whereby companies that endeavor to comply with the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations forbidding the “export” of technical data to individuals without sufficient ties to the United States...
A Day Late and A Lawsuit Short – The Consequences of Failing to Timely Respond to a Motion for Summary Judgment
Every attorney is familiar with the stress of ensuring compliance with the various filing deadlines of their cases.[1] But sometimes, we watch in confusion as an opposing party’s filing date passes without so much as a peep from the other side. While I’m sure none of...
No Claim? No Standing. – The Importance of Filing a Claim Under LOLA.
A party inexperienced with Limitation of Liability Act (“LOLA”) proceedings may find themselves in deep water by assuming that the procedural rules applicable to ordinary civil cases applies equally to a case brought under LOLA.[1] While there are certainly many...
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...