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The Story of Bad Faith in Government Contracts

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 10.22.14

In his article "A Twice-Told Tale: The Strangely Repeated Story of 'Bad Faith' in Government Contracts," published in the latest issue of The Federal Circuit Bar Journal, C&M's Rick Claybrook tells the story of how the Supreme Court over 50 years ago suddenly injected intentional animus into the analysis of whether the government acted in bad faith in its dealings with contractors—and promptly got rebuffed by Congress. He suggests that the Federal Circuit, ironically, has repeated the same error in some of its more recent decisions.


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Client Alert | 2 min read | 03.23.26

ACTS Survey Compliance Deadline Temporarily Extended: What Higher Education Institutions Need to Know

On March 13, a Massachusetts federal district court temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from requiring higher education institutions to respond to the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (“ACTS”) survey — a new data collection effort mandating that institutions disclose detailed admissions information regarding students’ race and sex to the federal government. In Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Department of Education, 1:26-cv-11229 (D. Mass.), the court extended the deadline for institutions to respond to the survey from March 18th to March 25th to allow time to consider the case....