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Fraudulent Claim Gets The Triple Whammy

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 03.03.09

In Daewoo Eng'g and Constr. Co. v. U.S. (Fed. Cir. Feb. 20, 2009), the Federal Circuit affirmed the CFC's findings that the contractor had submitted a $64 million claim involving approximately $50 million based on material misrepresentations that amounted to a fraud. From this, the contractor received the triple whammy of forfeiting its entire claim under the CDA, being penalized $50 million under the CDA, and being fined $10,000 under the FCA.

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Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.20.26

HSR Form Rollback: What Dealmakers Need to Know Now

On March 19, 2026, a U.S. District Court for the Fifth Circuit panel denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) emergency motion for a stay pending appeal of a district court’s order that vacated the FTC’s 2024 overhaul of the HSR premerger notification form....