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Do the Exclusion Archives on SAM.gov Violate Contractors' Liberty Interest?

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 09.29.16

The suspension and debarment remedies are not meant to punish contractors for past misdeeds, yet information about past exclusions is stored indefinitely on the SAM.gov website, and this information is increasingly causing collateral consequences outside the government marketplace. In an article published in Bloomberg BNA, C&M attorneys discuss the evolution of the excluded parties list and explore how a contractor might challenge the exclusion archives as a violation of a contractor’s constitutional liberty interests.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.27.25

House Committee Seeks Comment on New Comprehensive Data Privacy and Security Framework

On Friday, February 21, Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Rep. John Joyce (R-PA), the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, issued a Request for Information (RFI) inviting stakeholders to provide comment as the Committee explores the development of a federal data privacy and security framework. After efforts to consider a bipartisan and bicameral bill failed last year under former Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Chairman Guthrie is starting the effort anew, forming a working group with the goal of developing comprehensive legislation “that can get across the finish line.”...