1. Home
  2. |Insights
  3. |Federal Circuit Adopts Broad Standing in Set-Aside Challenge

Federal Circuit Adopts Broad Standing in Set-Aside Challenge

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 09.04.15

In Tinton Falls Lodging Realty, LLC v. U.S. (Sept. 2, 2015), the Federal Circuit on review of a set-aside contract upheld a small-business determination concerning the awardee when challenged by a large business hoping to compete for the work. Of more general interest was Judge Chen's ruling upholding the large business's standing to pursue the protest, as, if it had been successful on the merits, no small businesses would have submitted qualifying offers and the agency might have reprocured on an unrestricted basis.


Insights

Client Alert | 6 min read | 08.14.25

Changes in Sunscreen Regulation & Litigation are Heating Up: Updates from Congress to the Courts

In an effort to update and modernize the FDA’s regulation of sunscreen, Representative John Joyce (R-Ohio) and a group of bipartisan members of Congress introduced in June the Supporting Accessible, Flexible, and Effective Sunscreen (SAFE) Standards Act.  If enacted, the bill would establish a more flexible regulatory scheme at the FDA, decrease the cost in the approval process and expand the array of sunscreen available for purchase....