Statute of Limitations Runs from Receipt of Auditable Information
Client Alert | 1 min read | 04.04.12
The six-year statute of limitations on contract claims begins to run when either party's cause of action "accrues," defined in FAR 33.201 as "the date when all events, that fix the alleged liability of either the Government or the contractor and permit assertion of the claim, were known or should have been known." Several prior decisions have held that a government claim accrued no later than the date on which it is identified and quantified in an audit report, but in Raytheon Co. v. U.S. (Apr. 02, 2012), the Court of Federal Claims held that the government claim had accrued, not when the costs at issue were first audited (2003), but instead when Raytheon submitted to the government all of the information that was needed to audit the costs and assert a claim (1999).
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Client Alert | 15 min read | 08.20.25
In this eighth alert in our weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we continue our overview of initiatives with respect to security of supply and shortage prevention and mitigation. Our last alert looked at how the Pharma Package seeks to address these issues. However, the Pharma Package does not exist in isolation, and in this alert we will discuss the interplay between its measures and those contained in other important EU initiatives such as the proposed Critical Medicines Act (CMA), and the Medicinal Countermeasures Strategy and the EU Stockpiling Strategy.
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Forged Faces, Real Liability: Deepfake Laws Take Effect in Washington State and Pennsylvania
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