The past year has offered a range of important litigation decisions for federal contractors, from False Claims Act rulings clarifying key points of the anti-fraud law to decisions on responsibility and liability as part of contract performance.
“We do a lot of work in the cybersecurity space and that is a big, big development to the extent that folks are going to be able to sue a company on a third-party beneficiary status — that certainly could cause companies to carefully check and carefully ensure that they are meeting the various data security requirements that are in their contracts, because if not, you see what [could] happen,” McCarter & English LLP government contracts practice co-lead Franklin Turner said.