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2 days ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Mallory Culhane |Brian Flood
A coalition of state attorneys general succeeded in their bid to halt the Trump administration from effectively dismantling AmeriCorps, a federal judge ruled Thursday. AmeriCorps likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it failed to provide notice and solicit public comment “before making significant changes to service delivery,” Judge Deborah L.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Flood
The Public Broadcasting Service said President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the end of its taxpayer subsidies violates the First Amendment and federal law, according to a new lawsuit Friday. Trump’s May 1 executive order violates its constitutional protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press as well as the Administrative Procedure Act, PBS says in its complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Jacklyn Wille |Brian Flood
A federal judge slapped a $6,000 sanction on an attorney who filed briefs that included citations to nonexistent cases that were generated using artificial intelligence. The lawyer, who’s representing an Indiana excavation company in a dispute with a multiemployer benefit fund, admitting to using generative AI to draft briefs that included “hallucination cites” to fictitious cases.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Daniel Seiden |Carmen Castro-Pagan |Brian Flood
National Public Radio Inc. and others are challenging President Donald Trump‘s executive order that seeks to cut off funding, according to a federal court complaint filed Tuesday. The Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media order, which directs federal agencies to stop NPR from receiving any federal funding, violates the US Constitution and must be permanently enjoined, NPR told the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Daniel Seiden |Laura Francis |Brian Flood
A Venezuelan national convinced a federal district court to certify a class of noncitizens in custody in her challenge to the US government’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Flood |Nicholas Datlowe
The US Supreme Court left in place a state contractor’s wire fraud convictions in a Thursday ruling, rejecting arguments challenging the government’s “fraudulent inducement” theory. The government doesn’t need to prove that a defendant who uses falsehoods to induce someone to enter into a transaction intended or caused economic harm, the court held in an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Flood |Nicholas Datlowe
The US Supreme Court left in place a state contractor’s wire fraud convictions in a Thursday ruling, rejecting arguments challenging the government’s “fraudulent inducement” theory. The government doesn’t need to prove that a defendant who uses falsehoods to induce someone to enter into a transaction intended or caused economic harm, the court held in an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Laura Francis |Brian Flood
Kraft Heinz Co., Coca-Cola Co., and General Mills Inc. are among the targets of an anticipated wave of lawsuits portraying Big Food as the next Big Tobacco by likening the addictiveness of ultra-processed food to that of cigarettes. A first-of-its-kind case filed against the food giants last year accuses the packaged food industry of using the same neuroscience research and marketing tactics as the tobacco industry to get children hooked on dangerous and unhealthy products.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Daniel Seiden |Brian Flood
The US Department of Homeland Security terminated for convenience Leidos Inc.'s $2.4 billion cybersecurity services contract issued under the Agile Cybersecurity Technical Security solicitation, a government status report says. The termination follows Nightwing Intelligence Solutions LLC’s protest of the seven-year contract award, alleging Leidos won the contract with “insider information” provided by a former DHS employee.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Daniel Seiden |Brian Flood
The FBI reasonably awarded Trilogy Innovations Inc. a $93 million task order to provide digital and information technology services to the Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia, the GAO said in a decision released Friday. Protester Fusion Technology LLC didn’t show show that the FBI erred by concluding that its $74 million bid price was unrealistically low and posed a high risk to the government, the Government Accountability Office said.
