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Jan 7, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Townsend L. Bourne |Nikole Snyder |Daniel Alvarado |Jordan Mallory |Daniel Alvarado
To kick off the New Year (and as is now tradition, since we put out a similar Recap & Forecast last year), Sheppard Mullin’s Governmental Practice Cybersecurity & Data Protection Team has prepared a cybersecurity-focused 2024 Recap (highlighting major updates and including links to the resources we put out over the past year) and a 2025 Forecast (previewing what we expect to see in 2025).
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Nikole Snyder
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On October 22, 2024, the Department of Justice ("DOJ")
announced that Pennsylvania State University
("Penn State") has agreed to pay $1,250,000 to settle a False Claims Act ("FCA")
case brought against the University approximately two years ago.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Nikole Snyder
[co-author: Sidney Howe*]On October 22, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that Pennsylvania State University (“Penn State”) has agreed to pay $1,250,000 to settle a False Claims Act (“FCA”) case brought against the University approximately two years ago.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Nikole Snyder
On August 22, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Complaint-In-Intervention (the “Complaint”) against the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (GTRC). The 99-page DOJ Complaint alleges the defendants knowingly failed to meet contractual cybersecurity requirements in connection with various Department of Defense (DoD) contracts.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Jordan Mallory |Nikole Snyder
On June 28, 2024, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court overruled the four decade old case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. This pivotal decision should spur businesses to recalibrate their existing relationship with federal agencies. Indeed, we have already seen industry groups begin to use the overruling to influence agency rulemaking, signaling a future of significant shifts in the regulatory landscape.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Jordan Mallory |Nikole Snyder
On June 28, 2024, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court overruled
the four decade old case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense
Council. This pivotal decision should spur businesses to
recalibrate their existing relationship with federal agencies. Indeed, we have already seen industry groups begin to use the
overruling to influence agency rulemaking, signaling a future of
significant shifts in the regulatory landscape.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Nikole Snyder
On June 17, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the latest settlement under its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (“CCFI”) (previously discussed here).[1] The settlement resulted in a total of $11,300,000 in payments from two consulting companies (Guidehouse, Inc., the prime contractor, which paid $7,600,000; and Nan Kay and Associates, the subcontractor, which paid $3,700,000) to resolve allegations the two companies violated the False Claims Act by failing to meet cybersecurity...
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Nikole Snyder
The U.S. Government continues to increase its Federal investment in space – not for exploration, but rather as a defense strategy – and this continued investment provides significant opportunity for commercial entities to partner with the Federal Government on space projects.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Jordan Mallory |Nikole Snyder
The Department of Defense published a much-anticipated Proposed Rule at the end of last year for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The proposed rule is our first comprehensive look at the latest iteration of the CMMC program (referred to as CMMC 2.0), which will become effective once final changes are made to DoD regulations for contractors.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Nikole Snyder |Jordan Mallory
The Department of Defense published a much-anticipated Proposed Rule at the end of last year for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The proposed rule is our first comprehensive look at the latest iteration of the CMMC program (referred to as CMMC 2.0), which will become effective once final changes are made to DoD regulations for contractors.
