Government Litigation Savings Act
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 3:52 pm
Government Litigation Savings Act introduced
Wyoming Senator Barrasso and Wyoming Representative Lummis have introduced the Government Litigation and Savings Act.
This bill will put a halt to the abuses of the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), legislation originally designed to help individuals, small businesses and no-profit organizations recover attorney's fees and costs associated with suing the federal government.
Sadly, environmental groups used the EAJA to create a gravy train of taxpayer funded litigation that advances their own radical environmental agenda. Indeed, court documents reveal that these environmental groups repeatedly sue the federal government not on substantive grounds, but on canned procedural motions. A small sample of environmental groups have sued the government over 1200 times and received upwards of $35 million dollars of taxpayer money.
Government Litigation Savings Act
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/Gove ... gs_Act.pdf
GLSA Section by Section
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/GLSA ... ection.pdf
GLSA Endorsements
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/GLSA ... ements.pdf
Wyoming Senator Barrasso and Wyoming Representative Lummis have introduced the Government Litigation and Savings Act.
This bill will put a halt to the abuses of the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), legislation originally designed to help individuals, small businesses and no-profit organizations recover attorney's fees and costs associated with suing the federal government.
Sadly, environmental groups used the EAJA to create a gravy train of taxpayer funded litigation that advances their own radical environmental agenda. Indeed, court documents reveal that these environmental groups repeatedly sue the federal government not on substantive grounds, but on canned procedural motions. A small sample of environmental groups have sued the government over 1200 times and received upwards of $35 million dollars of taxpayer money.
Government Litigation Savings Act
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/Gove ... gs_Act.pdf
GLSA Section by Section
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/GLSA ... ection.pdf
GLSA Endorsements
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/GLSA ... ements.pdf