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The Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission (NEOC) was established by statute in 1965 as a response to the Civil Rights Movement. The unicameral legislature sought to implement its own state laws to complement the recent passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733, also called the "Lincoln Law") is an American federal law that was passed on March 2, 1863 during the American Civil War, that allows people who are not affiliated with the government to file actions against federal contractors claiming fraud against the government. The law represented an effort ...
False Claims Act Amendments (Pub. L. 99–562, 100 Stat. 3153, enacted October 27, 1986) The elimination of the "government possession of information" bar against qui tam lawsuits; The establishment of defendant liability for "deliberate ignorance" and "reckless disregard" of the truth;
“The Justice Department’s request to shift Ms. Worley’s powers to Governor Riley is extraordi-nary.” When Worley sought redress in a court overseen by a federal judge aligned with the Bush administration, she wasn’t allowed her chosen lawyer. It was “a one-sided proceeding that felt a lot like a kangaroo court. . .” cautioned the ...
The South Dakota Department of Corrections has asked a Lincoln County judge to dismiss a pending lawsuit filed against it by a group of Lincoln County homeowners regarding the site of the new men ...
Before the Court of Claims was established, monetary claims against the federal government were normally submitted through petitions to Congress. By the time of the Court's creation, the workload had become unwieldy so Congress gave the Court jurisdiction to hear all monetary claims based upon a law, a regulation, or a federal government ...
Brian McGinty, Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America (2015) Mark E. Steiner, An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (2006) Daniel W. Stowell, ed., The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases (four vols., 2007) Review; Jonathan W. White, Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life (2015 ...
Lawsuits brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, 18 states, and the District of Columbia in two separate actions were resolved through a Consent Decree that took effect in 2001 and a Final Judgment entered in 2002. These proceedings imposed various constraints on our Windows operating system businesses.