Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are strongly disputed by scholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

Fannie Mae Clackum was the first service member to successfully appeal such a discharge, winning eight years of back pay from the US Court of Claims in 1960.

Because it was passed under the administration of President Abraham Lincoln, the False Claims Act is often referred to as the " Lincoln Law.

The False Claims Act was amended in 1943 to, most notably, reduce the relator's share of the recovered proceeds.

" This final payment under the US-Libya Claims Settlement Agreement was seen as a major step towards improving ties between the two, which had begun easing after Tripoli halted its arms programmes.

Claims that on discovery the island " was entirely covered with forests, the trees drooping over the tremendous precipices that overhang the sea " have been questioned.

The warships caused a major diplomatic row that was resolved in the Alabama Claims in 1872, in the Americans ' favour.

His father was originally a farm-hand and forestry worker who rose to become a forestry manager and stock agent at Halla Ltd. Claims made that Kekkonen's family had lived in a rudimentary farmhouse with no chimney were later proved to be false — a photograph of Kekkonen's childhood home had been retouched to remove the chimney.

One of the first laws that protected whistleblowers was the 1863 United States False Claims Act ( revised in 1986 ), which tried to combat fraud by suppliers of the United States government during the Civil War.

The first US law adopted specifically to protect whistleblowers was the 1863 United States False Claims Act ( revised in 1986 ), which tried to combat fraud by suppliers of the United States government during the Civil War.

In foreign affairs his overriding aim was to promote peace and understanding, characterised by his settlement of the Alabama Claims in 1872 in favour of the Americans.

The Claims of Science was given in 1851 at Queen's College, Cork.

Claims that she was romantically involved with musician Mick Jagger, actor Peter Sellers, and Australian cricketer Keith Miller are unproven.

From 1871 to 1877 he was again a member of the United States Senate, in which he was prominent in debate and in committee work, and was chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Alabama Claims negotiations.

Claims are sometimes made that the monument was misplaced in the initial surveys.

The " Mashantucket Pequot Indian Land Claims Settlement Act " was enacted by the U. S. Congress and signed by President Ronald Reagan on Oct. 18, 1983.

The Supreme Court of California ruled in 2002 that Los Angeles County ( which at the time was responsible for maintaining the courthouses ) was not liable to her three children under the California Government Tort Claims Act.

Claims have been made that the MMR vaccine is linked to autism and inflammatory bowel disease, including one study by Andrew Wakefield ( the paper was discredited and retracted in 2010 and Wakefield was later stripped of his license after his work was found to be an " elaborate fraud " ) that indicated a link between gastrointestinal disease, autism, and the MMR vaccine.

James I's courtiers discovered in " James Stuart " " a just master ", and converted " Charles James Stuart " into " Claims Arthur's seat " ( even at that point in time, the letters I and J were more-or-less interchangeable ).

Claims to the Panjdeh Oasis were in debate, with the Russians keen to take over all the region's Turkoman domains.

Jewish claims were bundled in the Jewish Claims Conference, which represented the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.

Germany then initially paid about 3 billion Mark to Israel and about 450 million to the Claims Conference, although payments continued after that, as new claims were made.

In that case, the land rights were resolved more than 100 years later with the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ).

See also Indian Land Claims Settlements for other cases where native land title claims were extinguished with monetary compensation.

Claims of races having different intelligence were used to justify colonialism, slavery, social darwinism, and racial eugenics.

Claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction at its disposal were later found to be unproven.

Boole's views were given in four published addresses: The Genius of Sir Isaac Newton ; The Right Use of Leisure ; The Claims of Science ; and The Social Aspect of Intellectual Culture.

Claims were incorporated as two 1916 companies with mining continuing until 1918 and resuming after World War II until the early 1950s.

Claims have been made that factors in Calvi's death were the Vatican Bank, Banco Ambrosiano's main shareholder ; the Mafia, which may have used Banco Ambrosiano for money laundering ; and the Propaganda Due or P2 clandestine Masonic Lodge.

Claims of a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism were raised in a 1998 paper in The Lancet, a respected British medical journal.

Claims were initiated by way of civil bill.

Claims were made on " Bottineau Prairie " and it wasn't long before other brave and adventurous men came to the area.

Although the Treaty has never been incorporated into New Zealand municipal law, its provisions were first incorporated into legislation as early as the Land Claims Ordinance 1841 and the Native Rights Act 1865.

As the climate and topography were not promising to settlement, the entire region remained sparsely populated until several federal congressional actions, including the Northern Pacific Land Grant Act, the Homestead Act, and Desert Claims Act, encouraged the settlement of this semi-arid desert.

Of 4, 460 claims in the American Society of Anesthesiologists ( ASA ) Closed Claims Project database, 266 ( approximately 6 %) were for airway injury.

Claims were made that he was born in May 1452, or 10 or 20 July 1451.

Criticisms of the field were focused in the founding of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( 1976 ), now called the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and its periodical, Skeptical Inquirer.

Claims that some of these drugs can enhance creativity, insight or productivity were quite common, as is the belief that the drugs in use were a key influence on the social events of the time ( see recreational drug use ).

Claims asserted by the Lusatian National movement were postulates of joining Lusatia to Poland or Czechoslovakia.

Claims about the significance of those years, including the presence of Jesus Christ, the beginning of the " last days ", the destruction of worldly governments and the earthly resurrection of Jewish patriarchs, were successively abandoned.