Grant and Cooperative Agreement Protests: A Changed Landscape

November 23, 2016

John O’Brien and Andrew Wible discuss the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Hymas v. United States, 810 F.3d 1312 (Fed. Cir. 2016), which all but eliminated the Tucker Act as an avenue to challenge an adverse grant decision. Download the PDF

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Grant and Cooperative Agreement Protests: A Changed Landscape

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