Government Law

The roots of modern government law go back as far as ancient Greek and Roman times. Today’s modern laws seek to address both federal and state regulations impacting everything from the interplay between federal and state tax dollars to more local administrative agency concerns. Topics under this umbrella also include issues such as eligibility for aid under the federal Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts to ensuring environmental compliance from big business. If you are an attorney researching how the federal government awards or negotiates contracts, including an explanation on the bidding process and procurement integrity, FindLaw has a series of articles to help better inform your government law-based practice. Click on the links below to learn more.

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Attorney’s Guide to the Partition of Railroad Retirement Annuities

FEBRUARY 1999 Bureau of Law TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 101 Purpose of Guide6 106 Summary of Board Requirements for Partition Order6 102 The Railroad Retirement Act6 107 Division of Railroad Retirement Disability Annuities6 103 Funding of Railroad ...
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Aviation Law Alert

On April 13, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit filed its decision finding that, in a case involving deep vein thrombosis ("DVT") on a , an airline passenger's tort claims are preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act of ...
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Avoiding Unsound Investments

Every five or ten years, a group of local governments loses a significant amount of money in unwise investments and serves as a reminder to all local governments that public moneys must be invested prudently and cautiously. Such losses took place ...
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Bank-Owned Life Insurance Presents a Window of Opportunity

This article appeared in the Community Banker, January 2004 (The monthly magazine of the America's Community Bankers) Bank-owned life insurance, or BOLI, is a single premium life insurance contract specially designed for banks to earn tax-free ...
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Beware of Sites Unseen

Many federal governmental bid documents contain a soils report and copies of the boring logs. However it is also possible for the bid documents to simply reference availability of a soils report. The reference, apparently however slight, may be ...
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Bulletin, Bulletin, Bulletin: Chicago’s Daley Re-elected

Meanwhile, in a seemingly-unrelated story, on February 23 Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was re-elected. So? Well, money managers and stock exchanges donated more than $90,000.00 to his re-election campaign. Eight of the money managers actually ...
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But U.S. Supreme Court will Resolve Conflice

The United States Supreme Court will use decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (arising in Florida) to harmonize conflicting Court of Appeals decisions on the issue of whether the Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...
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Caldera v. Northrop: Federal Circuit Says Legal Costs Are Not Allowable

On December 13, 1999, the Federal Circuit denied a petition for rehearing on a decision that significantly changes existing law governing allowability and allocability of legal costs under federal contracts. See Caldera v. Northrop, 192 F.3d 962 ...
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Can Sending an E-mail Be Considered “Concerted Activity” Protected by Federal Labor Law?

The National Labor Relations Board answered "yes" to this question in , a recent decision which exposes the unforeseen problems that unregulated e-mail use can cause for employers. The NLRB's ruling also should remind employers that federal labor ...
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Can State Action Provide an Antitrust Defense If Such Action Violates the Commerce Clause?

Reprinted from the December 1998 issue of Antitrust ReportThe state action defense shields regulated firms from liability under the Sherman Act where the private conduct being challenged is authorized or compelled by state law and is actively ...
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