federal-contractor-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-117 Todd Berman v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, dba Fedloan Servicing Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense circuit-conflict federal-contractor federal-contractor-liability government-instructions merits-trial qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Derivative-sovereign-immunity
18-206 Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross Whether the Yearsley defense is a jurisdictional defense or an affirmative defense, and whether it applies to violations of federal law or only state …