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When Agencies Play Ostrich: A Fee-Recovery Playbook for Any Government Contractor or Grant Recipient

Bradley – A federal judge in Massachusetts recently ordered the Department of Defense (DoD) to pay $450,447 in attorneys’ fees to the Association of American Universities (AAU), after finding that DoD’s now-defunct “Rate Cap Policy” was not just unlawful, but never substantially justified in the first place.

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