SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

The Department of Justice has used the law to recover more than $70 billion since 1986, largely in cases related to health care and defense contracting. Share The False Claims Act has for decades been the government’s primary anti-fraud statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

The Department of Justice has used the FCA to recover more than $70 billion since 1986, largely in cases related to health care and defense contracting. The whistleblowers were backed not only by the government but also by a “friend of the court” brief from Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) , the FCA’s long-time champion.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

The proposal is a broad one, proposing to prohibit any agreement that has the same effect as a noncompete agreement, including broad nondisclosure agreements that would preclude a worker from working in their field at a new company, or contract clauses that require an employee to repay a company for training costs if the employee leaves the company.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. The contract still took a couple more months to finalize. Privately they said the same thing.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

We are, after all, only two months away from the first ballots in Iowa and New Hampshire. Stations in Iowa have been receiving buys from Presidential candidates and PACs and other third-party groups since this past summer, and that spending is sure to increase in these last few weeks before the 2016 start of the primaries and caucuses.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 31, 2019

Stations in Iowa and other early primary states have already been receiving buys from Presidential candidates, PACs, and other third-party groups. What should stations in Iowa and in other states be thinking about now to get ready for the 2020 elections?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Third, the orders set term length requirements for PURPA contracts with utilities for facilities with a design capacity of two megawatts or less. 20 Year PURPA Contract Term Length. 6] These term lengths are similar to other states too, such as Oregon and Wyoming, which also have 20-year terms for PURPA contracts. [7].

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Some stations are no doubt already selling long-term contracts that will still be in effect during the primary season. But, as candidates become legally qualified, there will be reasonable access and equal opportunities obligations that will arise.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

604C (2021); Nonrecourse Civil Litigation Advance Contracts, Ohio Rev. See Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Memorandum 4 (Dec. 2, 2014). [22] 22] See C.D. Civil L.R. 1; E.D.N.C. 12; Nonrecourse Civil Litigation Act, Neb. Stat. §§ 25-3301 -25-3309; Consumer Litigation Funding, Nev.

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The Process Street

APRIL 12, 2021

Part of my job is negotiating six-figure contracts. The challenge there is that a founder can’t easily be registering with the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Secretary of State in Iowa and New York and California – which each have different employment laws, by the way. “A But then part of my job is driving to the UPS store.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Tuesday ruled that plaintiffs in The Arc of Iowa v. Under the terms of the injunction, Iowa’s ban on school mask mandates must include an exception for schools with disabled students who are at elevated risk due to COVID-19. One student, “S.V.,”

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tyson Foods supervisors in Iowa allegedly ran a betting pool early in the pandemic on how many employees would contract COVID-19 despite local demands to idle the processing facility, and now the odds are stacking against the company in an Eighth Circuit fight over proper venue for wrongful death claims, with the federal government stepping in to back (..)

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The paper cited research in Iowa and Tennessee showing that tightening jail visitation rules led to an increase in disciplinary infractions and in assaults on correction staff. Similarly, when authorities in the Travis County, Texas jail banned in-person visitation, the facility recorded an escalation of violence and contraband.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The Montana Supreme Court agreed with the district court that the solar project developer was entitled to an agreed-upon rate for energy, a carbon adder, and a 25-year contract term. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement v. The Supreme Court said the PSC lacked authority to rewrite these terms. DA-19-0363 (Mont. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Concepcion , the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to put arbitration agreements “on an equal footing with other contracts.” It began as a lawsuit brought by Robyn Morgan, an employee at an Iowa Taco Bell, against Sundance, a company that owns more than 150 Taco Bell franchises nationwide.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

LLC involves how to determine the law to be applied under federal admiralty law in a maritime contract case. United States , an Iowa man challenges his conviction for trafficking in methamphetamine and fentanyl and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, which landed him in prison for 17 and a half years. relisted after the Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2025

Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Bonta 24-728 Issues : (1) Whether a party alleging that California’s Proposition 12 which enacts a pork sales ban to regulate the manner in which pigs are housed in states across the country discriminates against interstate commerce, both directly and under Pike v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2021

On September 9 th , President Biden issued a pair of executive orders requiring that all executive branch federal employees and federal contracts be vaccinated. Moreover, all federal contracts must include the clause beginning on November 14. The lawsuit argues that the mandate is an illegal overreach.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In contrast to the U.S. Constitution and the convening of national conventions that are quite limited or restrictive when it comes to amendment or change, the state constitutions are far more flexible and directly accessible to the people.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

” According to the letter sent to JBS USA , the world’s largest meatpacker, 3,084 employees of its employees have contracted the virus while at least 18 have died. ” Tyson failed to institute facility-wide testing where more than 50 employees were infected. .”

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