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'No Prejudice' Response to Protest of Past Performance Evaluation Tantamount to Concession of Error

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.31.14

In a recent decision, GAO sustained Native Resource Dev. Co.'s protest that its past performance should have been rated Outstanding given the undisputed record of the agency's superlative written findings. GAO held that the agency's response, which was solely that if the protester's past performance merited a higher rating, then so did the awardee's, was "tantamount to a concession" that it could not defend its assignment of a Satisfactory rating and dismissed the agency's findings about the essential equivalency of protester's and awardee's past performance as merely a post hoc argument to be given little weight.


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Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.11.26

California SB 947 ("No Robo Bosses Act"): New Proposed Guardrails on Use of Automated Decision Systems in Employer Discipline and Termination Decisions

Employers are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence and automated decision systems (ADS) in workplaces across California and the world as avenues to boost productivity or achieve cost savings. However, some state legislators have raised concerns about the lack of worker protections and oversight in discipline and termination decisions made by ADS....