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What DOJ’s 2022 Recovery Stats Reveal About FCA Enforcement Trends

Client Alert | 1 min read | 02.13.23

On February 7, 2023, the Department of Justice issued the False Claims Act (FCA) recovery statistics for fiscal year 2022. While the $2.2 billion recovered by the Department and qui tam relators was down from the prior year, 2022 saw a record number of new FCA matters initiated. Underscoring the flurry of FCA activity, there were 351 settlements and judgments in 2022, the second-highest number recorded in a fiscal year.

In an Expert Analysis article published in Law360, C&M attorneys analyze what the 2022 fiscal year recovery statistics reveal about potential FCA enforcement trends in the year ahead.

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Client Alert | 1 min read | 01.10.25

FAR Council Withdraws Proposed Mandatory Climate Disclosures for Federal Contractor Rule

Mandatory climate disclosures for US federal contractors are officially off the table—at least, for the foreseeable future.  On January 10, 2025, the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that they are withdrawing a proposed rule, “Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk,” which would have required thousands of federal contractors to inventory and publicly disclose their Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and would also have required  “major” contractors to also establish and validate GHG emission-reduction targets tailored to the goals of the Paris Agreement.  The proposed rule, discussed in further detail here, was introduced in November 2022 and resulted in thousands of public comments from the government contractor community and beyond. ...