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We are hearing from an increasing number of our federal grantee clients who are facing challenges with their Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRAs) as a result of significant staffing shortages at [...]

Injunctions Remain in Effect Until Appellate Courts Rule On November 7, 2025, the federal government filed notices of appeal in two separate lawsuits challenging its reinterpretation of what constitutes a “Federal public [...]

Increased Competition Thresholds Effective October 1, 2025 This has been a whirlwind of a year in changes in grants, and now, with the beginning of the new federal fiscal year, it is [...]

Federal funding is set to lapse with the expiration of the Fiscal Year 2025 Continuing Resolution at the end of September. This means that, absent new funding legislation, a government shutdown could [...]

On Friday, September 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an unpublished decision upholding a Mississippi law that protects 340B contract pharmacy arrangements. The ruling came in [...]

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted without any fanfare the promised revision to the HHS Grants Policy Statement (GPS), effective October 1, 2025.  This updated [...]

The question of whether the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are constitutional—and whether whistleblowers may continue to litigate on behalf of the U.S. government—is now pending on appeal before [...]

Grantees Must File Separate Cases in U.S. District Court and the Court of Federal Claims The new Administration has rolled out executive orders directing federal agencies to review and terminate grants deemed [...]

On August 12, 2025, the court in State of New York, et al., v. USDOJ, et al., 25-cv-00345 (D. R.I.), entered an updated “Stipulation and Joint Proposal for Briefing Schedule” stating that [...]

“Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” Gives Agency Heads More Control Over Federal Grant Review and Provides for Uniform Guidance Revisions A new Executive Order (EO) issued Thursday, August 7 continues—and expands upon—the [...]