Agency Playing Favorites Leads To Bad Faith Termination
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 10.18.05
While the government has significant discretion under the termination for convenience clause to end a contract, that discretion is not limitless. In Advanced Team Concepts, Inc. v. U.S. (Sept. 28, 2005), the Court of Federal Claims held that a termination was in bad faith and thus a breach of contract permitting lost profits when the reason for the termination was simply to shift the work to the recently departed director of the agency.
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Client Alert | 2 min read | 09.18.25
On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (HHS) issued a news release announcing an “aggressive[]” “crackdown” on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. This release came on the heels of a Presidential Memorandum President Trump issued the same day directing HHS to “ensure transparency and accuracy in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements,” and the FDA to “take action to enforce legal requirements that advertisements for prescription drugs be truthful and not misleading.”
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Bucking the Odds: Why Technology Companies Should Embrace Software Patents Today
