#SpaceX #US & #UnitedLaunchAlliance settle #SpaceXs bid protest today. Judge Susan G. Braden keeps settlement sealed: On April 28, 2014, the above captioned bid-protest case was filed by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (“SpaceX”) in the United States Court of Federal Claims and assigned to the undersigned judge. After participating in mediation, the parties have now settled the matter and stipulated dismissal of plaintiff’s complaint, with prejudice. The court has previously issued a Protective Order and a Non-Disclosure Order, protecting material in this case from release. The court now determines that the public interest is served by issuance of this Confidentiality Order, the terms of which follow: 1. Any information previously subject to the Protective Order or the Non-Disclosure Order may not be disclosed to anyone not admitted to those two orders, including the Mediator, John Ashcroft, Chairman of the Ashcroft Group, the Ashcroft Law Firm, and members thereof, except as provided in the settlement agreement that the parties executed on January 23, 2015. This information includes details about the process of mediation and the terms of the settlement agreement.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:59:34 +0000