Instead of planning for her future once she is released from a California state prison, Gabriela Solano, who was brought to the United States when she was 2 years old, filed a class action complaint Monday seeking to prevent an ICE contractor from arresting her for deportation.
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Faris Fadel had just one word to describe the recent pardoning by the Trump administration of four private security contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians — including his brother — in a public square 13 years ago: Unfair.
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A federal judge granted a temporary injunction to a gay rights advocacy organization that claimed Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting certain types of diversity training violated their free speech.
Read morehe Eleventh Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of a government contractor on a widow’s complaint alleging it failed to properly maintain an F-16 that her husband was flying when it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The Death on the High Seas Act applies to the case and precludes the widow’s warranty and contract claims.
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The British government spent billions without proper transparency in a scramble to secure protective equipment early in the coronavirus outbreak, the country’s public watchdog said Wednesday.
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An Italian artist whose roots inspired a border wall art installation near the U.S.-Mexico border made entirely of blocks of a Mexican hard cheese he made and cured himself sued a federal construction contractor Wednesday for destroying his creation.
Read moreA federal judge in Florida denied 3M’s invocation of the government contractor defense in a product liability suit filed by veterans who claim they suffered permanent hearing loss due to the company’s allegedly defective combat earplugs.
Read moreCalling a pair of lawsuits brought by private prison operator GEO Group and the federal government challenging the constitutionality of California’s private prison ban “fascinating and complex,” a federal judge Thursday suggested she was unlikely to rule the ban discriminates against the federal government or its contractors.
Read moreScience Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor, has paid $5,982,865 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in an Army contract.
Read moreA Chinese medical researcher accused of sharing secrets with the Chinese military on a U.S. government-funded laboratory project in San Francisco was arrested in Los Angeles this week and charged with lying on his visa application.
Read moreA federal court in South Carolina denied a military contractor’s motion to dismiss a negligence claim related to a suicide bombing in Afghanistan that injured a U.S. Army soldier. The soldier claims the contractor allowed the bomber to acquire most of the components necessary for the construction of a suicide vest and allowed him the freedom of movement to complete its construction at the base.
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A North Dakota construction company favored by President Trump has received the largest contract to date to build a section of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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A defense company that bungled an enormous Iraq War contract for health care centers has landed a $40 million award to build a 200-bed field hospital for patients battling coronavirus.
Read moreA federal judge approved late Friday Amazon’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt Microsoft’s work on the Defense Department’s $10 billion computer upgrade contract, finding that the Pentagon incorrectly evaluated pricing from the two companies’ competing bids.
Read moreA class action suit claiming that the operator of an immigration detention facility’s voluntary labor scheme violated the forced labor prohibition in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act may continue, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, finding that the act applies to “private for-profit contractors operating federal immigration detention facilities.”
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A federal judge in Texas has dismissed Chinese tech giant Huawei’s lawsuit challenging a U.S. law that bars the government and its contractors from using Huawei equipment due to security concerns.
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The Trump administration said Tuesday it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed up construction of a wall at the Mexican border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about fraud, waste and abuse.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled in favor of the U.S. government on Chinese telecommunications company Huawei’s constitutional challenge to a law that excludes its and another Chinese company’s products and services from “sensitive United States systems, including government systems and government contractors,” because of security concerns.
Read moreKevin Cloyd, a civilian assistant fire chief at a U.S. military base in Iraq, sued KBR for $10 million, claiming he suffered brain injuries in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack after KBR “ignore(d) the unambiguous threats of retaliation” and “failed to evacuate its workers after the United States assassinated Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Harris County Court.
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Deborah A. Batts, the nation’s first openly gay federal judge, has died. She was 72.
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