Allie Luciani

Allie Luciani is a litigator in the firm's Washington, DC office. She has experience at all stages of federal litigation, including investigations, taking depositions, motions practice, and appeals.

Allie joined the firm after clerking for Judge Lara E. Montecalvo and Senior Judge Bruce M. Selya on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to clerking, Allie worked as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Fraud and White-Collar Crime Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington, where she worked on civil and criminal enforcement actions involving healthcare, PPP, and cryptocurrency fraud.

Allie is also co-author of a leading legal ethics textbook, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Seventh Edition (2026).

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Key Takeaways:

  • Ninth Circuit limited agency authority to impose grant conditions.
  • Court rejected executive agency attempts to define FCA materiality through certifications.
  • Decision found other policy-based grant conditions also exceeded executive agency authority, including compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws beyond federally funded programs. 

On August 25, 2026, the Ninth Circuit issued a 2-1 decision in County of King v. Turner, which involved a challenge to the Trump Administration’s imposition of new conditions on local government recipients of earlier-awarded federal grants earmarked for local homelessness and transportation projects.  

The decision will be of interest to federal contractors and grantees, particularly those encountering new requirements from federal agencies aimed at furthering current Administration policy goals.

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