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"Any Degree of Fraud" Bars Contractor Claims

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 10.13.14

In Laguna Constr. Co. (Oct. 7), the ASBCA denied a $2.9 million claim for unpaid invoices because two of Laguna's employees had pled guilty to accepting subcontractor kickbacks under some, but not all, of the task orders under appeal. The Board imputed the fraud to the company and, applying the doctrine of "antecedent breach," held that the contractor's material breach excused the government's subsequent failure to pay for the completed and invoiced work.


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Client Alert | 7 min read | 04.20.26

EU Pharma Package: The “Bolar” Exemption Compromise Proposal

In our sixth alert in this EU Pharma Package Series, we provided an analysis of the history and interpretation issues for another highly debated topic: the “Bolar” exemption....