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Billing with no intention of payment

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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March 26 2013

In GaN Corporation, ASBCA No. 57834, 2012 WL 2997037, a contractor appealed a government claim alleging contracting overcharging on a contract for

National Defense Authorization Act for 2013contracting provisions

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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February 6 2013

On January 3, 2013, President Obama signed into law the 681-page National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 ("NDAA"). Fiscal Year 2013

United States files suit on Power Fire

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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August 20 2012

The United States has just filed suit against a power company and the subcontractor that it hired to trim hazard trees that encroached the company’s power lines

The looming sequestration

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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August 20 2012

Under the Budget Control Act of 2011, P.L. 119-28 (August 2, 2011), funding for a variety of federal programs will be reduced by nearly $1 trillion over the ten years from 2012 through 2021

Secure rural schools county spending faulted by GAO

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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August 20 2012

As if western counties didn’t have enough to worry about given the reduction and future uncertainty of payments under the Secure Rural Schools Act, GAO has just released a report critical of the way that previous payments have been spent

New report calls for water scooper aircraft to become the mainstay of the aircraft fleet to fight wildfires

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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August 20 2012

A recently published, Forest Service-sponsored study came up with a surprising conclusion that so-called water-scooper aircraft should become the central component of the fleet of aircraft used to fight wildfires

Ninth Circuit affirms “intangible” environmental damages award of $28.8 million against construction contractor for starting fire on national forest

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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August 20 2012

The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a jury award of $28.8 million to the federal government for “intangible” environmental harm to the environment caused by a fire that escaped from a construction site on private land and then burned onto the Angeles National Forest

Some things about liability for wildland fires that you may not know or may have forgotten

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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August 20 2012

The standard Forest Service timber sale contract addresses the very different consequences for two types of fires started by a contractor

Forest Service intentionally ignites fires on private property, yet avoids liability

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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August 20 2012

The Court of Federal Claims recently dismissed the complaint of several landowners seeking compensation under the Fifth Amendment for the physical taking of private timber located on land that is completely surrounded by the Shasta-Trinity National Forest

Challenging liquidated damages on federal government contracts

Smith Currie & Hancock
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USA
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July 9 2012

Two recent decisions, one at the United States Court of Federal Claims, Structural Concepts, Inc. v. United States, 103 Fed. Cl. 84 (2012), and one at the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals, National Fruit Product Co., Inc., CBCA No. 2445, 12-1 BCA 34,979 have lessened the obstacles for a contractor seeking to challenge a government claim for liquidated damages

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