Government Accountability Project

• Kansas Gas & Electric Company, Petitioner/Appellant, v. William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, Respondent/Appellee, and James E. Wells, Jr., Intervenor-Respondent, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Government Accountability Project, Nuclear Utilities, Amicus-Curiae, and James E. Wells, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kansas Gas & Electric Company and Its Wolf Creek Generating Plant, Defendants-Appellants., 780 F.2d 1505 (10th Cir. 1985)

Stanley E. Craven, of Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne (David L. Wing, Kansas City, Mo., and Mark A. Vining and Ralph B. Foster, Kansas Gas and Elec. Co....

• Federal Circuits

• Participant Media, the Paley Center for Media, Government Accountability Project and Warner Home Video Present Panel Discussion, Anyone Can Whistle -- The Essential Role of the Whistleblower in American Society, February 17, 7pm at Nyc Paley Center for Media

To: ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS Contact: Michael Donkis, Michael@primeprinc.com, or Rachael Reiss, Rachael@primeprinc.com, both of Prime; or Carrie Oman of Paley Center for Media, COman@paleycenter.org; or Online Press Requests, Christie Manning of Participant Media, Christie.Manning@participantmedia.com

• U.S. Newswire
• February 16, 2010

• It can happen here: government really can be cut: case studies from Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.

... ports, shipping lines, irrigation projects, radio spectrum, printing offices, insurance compa... the director of the Government Accountability Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason Uni...

• Reason
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 6, November 2010

• Vera M. English, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. General Electric Company, Defendant-Appellee, Government Accountability Project, Amicus Curiae. Vera M. English, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. General Electric Company, Defendant-Appellant, Government Accountability Project, Amicus Curiae., 871 F.2d 22 (4th Cir. 1989)

M. Travis Payne (Edelstein and Payne, Raleigh, N.C., Mozart G. Ratner, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellant/cross-appellee. Peter G. Nash (Dixi...

• Federal Circuits

• Informer Shields Likely to Remain ; White House Shifts Fbi Plan

White House attorneys have backed away from an effort to weaken legal protections for FBI whistleblowers in a bill now before Congress, according to advocacy groups in negotiations with the Obama administration. Officials from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Government Accountability Project (GAP) and Project on Government Oversight (POGO) said this week that they were given guarantees that protections for FBI whistleblowers - federal employees who uncover fraud and waste - would be restored in a Senate bill when Congress returns in September.

• The Washington Times
• August 20, 2009

• Gop Intern Was Behind Request for Government E-Mail Records ; Republican Party Leader Says Effort Is Part of 'Accountability Project.'

COLUMBUS -- A University of Akron graduate student who has asked Democratic statewide officeholders for six months of e-mail records did so as an intern for the Ohio Republican Party, party director Jason Mauk said Wednesday. We asked her to help with a government accountability project as part of her internship with the party," Mauk said. "This is simply an effort to shed light on the decision-making taking place in the offices of our statewide public officials. That's the extent to which I'll go. I don't want to discuss our internal strategies.

• Dayton Daily News
• September 27, 2007

• Direct-to-Consumer Ads Upset 'Learned Intermediary' Role

State courts in West Virginia and New Jersey that declared the "learned intermediary" doctrine outmoded by DTC advertising were right on the money, according to Government Accountability Project executive director Mark Cohen. Writing in an online column in November, he said the doctrine made some sense until the appearance of the first DTC ad in 1981 and FDA's 1997 advertising guidance. He said that if other states follow the lead of New Jersey and West Virginia in eliminating the learned intermediary, drugmakers will be legally and financially accountable for fully informing patients about product risks.

• Medical Marketing and Media
• August 22, 2009

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Forges Ahead to Newport

Work continues on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's operations center in Newport even as a government decision threatens to derail the project. The Government Accountability Office, the auditing branch of Congress, asked NOAA to consider whether there is a "practicable alternative" to its decision to build in Newport. The Port of Bellingham, Wash., which lost to the Port of Newport, challenged NOAA's decision. The GAO sustained part of that challenge and asked NOAA to look again at potential effects of building in a floodplain, including whether it should build elsewhere.

• Daily Journal of Commerce
• December 29, 2009

• Sidelined by Unions' 'Payback'

Ken Holmes saw a proposed $30 million federal Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H., as the ticket to get some of his laid-off construction workers back on the job. But the Obama administration's insistence on using a "project labor agreement" stands in the way. Holmes, who became president of North Branch Construction in 2006 after stints in the corporate finance department of Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York and running his own construction-management company in New London, N.H., in 1987, has filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office over the project.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• November 24, 2009

• Waste Site Plans Have Local Effect

Centralized storage of the nation's nuclear waste at two unnamed locations is a possible alternative to the Yucca Mountain project scrapped earlier this year by the U.S. Energy Department, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. A second alternative - continuing the current practice of onsite storage at 80 locations in 35 states - was also explored by investigators who compiled the 79-page analysis released last week.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• January 23, 2010