Foreign Policy and National Security
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A Colorado federal jury on Thursday awarded more than $1 million to a former Raytheon Co. engineer who said the defense contracting behemoth wrongly reassigned him after he reported problems with tests being run for a U.S. military contract to develop satellite navigation technology… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An American subsidiary of an Israeli construction company will pay the U.S. government $2.8 million and abandon $16 million in potential administrative claims, ending False Claims Act allegations that its Israeli parent actually did the work on a military port contract meant for U.S.-based companies… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of federal watchdogs has criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for determining that a whistleblower’s report about allegedly inappropriate White House interaction with Ukraine wasn’t an “urgent concern,” thereby blocking the complaint from being sent to Congress… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said on Thursday that the Trump administration had handed over data as part of a class action suit challenging its migrant family separation policy that shows more than 1,500 additional migrant children were separated from their families than previously known… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The county of El Paso in Texas and a local immigrant-rights nonprofit asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to block the entirety of the Trump administration’s planned diversion of $6.1 billion in defense funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 