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Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.03.13

Tune in this Sunday to Government Contracting Weekly (7 am, WUSA Channel 9) to hear Crowell & Moring's own Angela Styles and Amy O'Sullivan discuss several key topics of interest, including sequestration (and its impacts on bid protests and the M&A market) and reactions to the new small business legislation, that will be given greater attention at our 29th Annual Ounce of Prevention Seminar, May 15th and 16th at the Renaissance Hotel in D.C. 


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Client Alert | 2 min read | 04.16.26

Federal Circuit Holds Challengers to CICA Stay Overrides Need Not Satisfy Four-Factor Injunctive Relief Test

In a significant decision for government contractors, on April 15, 2026, in Life Science Logistics, LLC v. United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that bid protesters challenging an agency’s override of an automatic stay of contract performance under the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) need not satisfy the demanding four-factor test traditionally required for preliminary injunctive relief.  In so doing, the Federal Circuit clarified that CICA stay override challenges need only demonstrate that the override decision was arbitrary and capricious—nothing more....