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Google Sues Interior Department Over E-Mail Bid Request
Posted on 2 Nov 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

LOS ANGELES - (AP) Google is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior over a request for bids for a new e-mail and messaging solution it says favors rival Microsoft. The search giant filed the suit with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday. Full... Read More

Tags: Competition in Contracting Act , e-mail , U.S. Department of the Interior , Microsoft , Litigation , U.S. Court of Federal Claims , lawsuit , Google

10th Circuit Orders Feds To File In Property Rights Case
Posted on 1 Nov 2012 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley DENVER - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on Oct. 25 ordered the United States to respond to a motion by a Wyoming man who seeks to overturn a ruling by a Wyoming federal district court in favor of the U.S. Forest... Read More

Tags: Mountain States Legal Foundation , Laramie , Hahns Peak and Pacific Railroad Company , General Railroad Right-of-Way Act , Wyoming , 10th Circuit , Marvin Brandt , property rights , William Perry Pendley , Marvin M. Brandt and Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States , U.S. Department of the Interior , Litigation , U.S. Forest Service , MSLF

Oil, Gas Trade Groups Join Defendants In NEPA Exclusion Suit
Posted on 23 Sep 2010 by HB Litigation Conferences

MOBILE, Ala. - Oil and gas trade associations who stand to lose drilling rights have been allowed to intervene as defendants in an environmental group's effort to halt drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico under an exclusion to the National Environmental... Read More

Tags: Independent Petroleum Association of America , drilling , NEPA , International Association of Drilling Contractors , drilling permits , personal injury , Defenders of Wildlife v. Minerals Management Service , environmental group , Ken Salazar , new lawsuit filings , MMS , U.S. Department of the Interior , Defenders of Wildlife , U.S. Oil & Gas Association , Oil and gas , Minerals Management Service , Litigation , lawsuit , National Environmental Policy Act , torts , American Petroleum Institute , Gulf of Mexico

U.S. High Court Issues Split Ruling On Jurisdiction Of Federal Employees' Suit
Posted on 21 Jun 2012 by Bajeerah LaCava

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) precludes district court jurisdiction over claims by federal employees seeking to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional, a split U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 11 ( Michael B. Elgin... Read More

Tags: Federal Circuit , Civil Service Reform Act , Equal Protection , Michael B. Elgin , Employment Law , U.S. Department of the Treasury , U.S. Department of the Interior , Fifth Amendment , Litigation , Merit Systems Protection Board , MSPB , Michael B. Elgin v. Department of the Treasury , U.S. Supreme Court , CSRA , Selective Service System

Montana Museum Demands Return of Its Property
Posted on 8 Jul 2013 by William Perry Pendley

DENVER - A Montana man who has battled the federal government and its lawyers for years and is now represented by a nonprofit, public-interest legal foundation known as a defender of Americans’ right to own and use property on June 21 demanded the... Read More

Tags: Montana , Christopher Kortlander , Mountain States Legal Foundation , Bureau of Land Management , William Perry Pendley , U.S. Department of the Interior , Litigation , Little Big Horn , BLM , Custer Battlefield Museum