With only two days left until the federal government’s new fiscal year begins, Congress remains at an impasse over a dozen spending bills that must be signed into law to keep the government running, leaving many government contractors wondering about the potential impacts on their businesses if there is a government shutdown in the coming
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ECJ: national competition authorities may assess infringements outside competition law when establishing a dominance abuse
Four years after a landmark decision by the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) (decision of 6 February 2019, B6-22/16) finding that a major technology company acted abusively due to an alleged General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) infringement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently confirmed the FCO’s decision in that, depending on the circumstances of…
Third Circuit Rules Office of the Inspector General Need Not Abide By Statutory Filing Deadlines in Whistleblower Retaliation Case
In a case decided this week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit turned government filing deadlines on their head by holding that federal Offices of the Inspector General (“OIG”) are not actually bound by the statutory language stating that the OIG “shall” issue an investigative report within 180 days after receiving…
Department of Defense issues interim rule proposing to restrict acquisition of personal protective equipment from non-allied foreign nations
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has recently issued an interim rule that proposes to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to limit, with some exceptions, the acquisition of personal protective equipment (PPE) and certain other products from non-allied foreign nations, including the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, the People’s Republic of…
Singapore High Court issues revised sentencing framework for private sector corruption
The Singapore High Court recently issued a revised sentencing framework for private sector corruption offences involving agents in Singapore.
Singapore’s anti-corruption regime
The Prevention of Corruption Act 1960 (PCA) is the primary anti-corruption legislation in Singapore. The main offences can be found stated in sections 5 and 6 of the PCA, which prohibit:
- individuals corruptly
…
Tracking federal agencies’ re-opening plans for government contractors
After months of federal agency closures, and a wide expansion of teleworking and other remote work policies crafted in response to the novel coronavirus, the federal government is planning for a phased re-opening.[1] This post was most recently updated on June 26, 2020, and it includes updates to the following agency plans: Department of Defense,…
‘Daimler’ and US Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations
This post was also written by Ian M. Turetsky.
For many lawyers, the words “personal jurisdiction” do little more than invoke distant memories of a civil procedure course in law school, or perhaps a tortured essay question on the bar exam. But for global companies with a U.S. presence, those words have often invoked…
Equality for Women: Amending the Women-Owned Small Business Program to Ensure Consistency with the Other Small Business Administration Program
On January 12, 2012, the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) issued an interim final rule amending certain regulations governing the Women-Owned Small Business (“WOSB”) Program. These amendments to threshold amounts and protest procedures make the WOSB Program more consistent with other SBA government contracting programs. Given the public benefit of consistency in small business programs, SBA…
FAPIIS Flap-is: Transparency Advocates Hate It Now, Contractors Likely to Hate It Later
This post was also written by Joelle E.K. Laszlo.
It has been called “a steaming pile,” posited as “the worst government website . . . ever seen,” and emblazoned with two giant red thumbs pointed downward. And those were the reviews of its proponents. Just a handful of weeks after much of its…
Financial Regulatory Reform: Coming to the Finish Line?
This post was also written by Michael Bleier, Peter Blasier, and Perry Napolitano.
The next few weeks are make-or-break for the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats as they consider separate and often competing proposals on the regulation of financial institutions. The House of Representatives last year passed its own version of legislation, H.R. 4173, the…