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The Top FCA Developments Of 2017

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 02.02.18

From decisions on small business fraud to interpretations of the reverse FCA, 2017 was another busy year for False Claims Act developments.  In a "Feature Comment" published in The Government Contractor, C&M attorneys highlight top developments from 2017 on key issues such as original source requirements, DOJ’s potential dismissal of meritless qui tams, statistical sampling, and perhaps most significantly, the continued evolution of the case law in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark implied certification and materiality decision in Escobar

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 05.01.26

Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration Policies Restricting Wind and Solar Permitting

A coalition of regional clean energy trade associations — including RENEW Northeast, Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Southern Renewable Energy Association, and Interwest Energy Alliance — along with the Green Energy Consumers Alliance (GECA), filed suit in December 2025 against the Department of the Interior (DOI), the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the Army Corps of Engineers. The complaint alleged that five agency actions, issued in response to a series of executive orders and presidential memoranda beginning on January 20, 2025, violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by arbitrarily halting or restricting federal permitting for wind and solar energy projects. Plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of these policies while the litigation proceeds. See Renew Northeast, et al. v. U.S. Dep’t of Interior, et al., No. 25-cv-13961-DJC,  (D. Mass. Apr. 21, 2026) ECF Dkt. 89....