Sequestration: The Prequel
Client Alert | 1 min read | 09.26.12
On July 31, 2012, the Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) office issued a "class deviation" to implement the provisions of section 808 of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act which prohibit DOD from spending more on contracts for services in 2012 and 2013 than it spent in 2010. The "deviation" requires that CO's set negotiation objectives that do not exceed the labor rates and overhead rates that were in effect during 2010 for the same services, but because the "deviation" also requires that award of any contract that was priced based on rates in excess of those negotiation objectives must be approved by the secretary of the relevant military department or the head of the contracting activity, many DOD CO's are treating the "deviation" as a cap on allowable labor and overhead rates, regardless of any justification that may exist for rate increases.
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Client Alert | 3 min read | 08.03.26
On July 20, 2026, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent (FAIR) Act into law, making New Jersey the fourth state to regulate algorithmic rent-setting practices. Three days later, on July 23, 2026, Governor Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act, which targets “surveillance pricing”—the practice of using or collecting personal data about a user and using an algorithm or artificial intelligence to charge different consumers different prices for the same products. Together, these laws represent a significant expansion of New Jersey's consumer protection framework in the algorithmic pricing context.
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The Pipe, Not the Posts: How Section 230’s Protections Extend to Generative AI Platforms
