Fabio
76b8ec33a7
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
42 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
42 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "LegalText"
|
||
title: "42 U.S.C. § 5853"
|
||
description: "Limitation on legal fee reimbursement"
|
||
jurisdiction: "us"
|
||
corpus: "united_states_code"
|
||
kind: "code_section"
|
||
title_number: 42
|
||
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
|
||
chapter_number: "73"
|
||
chapter_name: "DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SOURCES"
|
||
section: "5853"
|
||
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5853"
|
||
status: "current"
|
||
release_point: "119-100"
|
||
release_date: "2026-06-26"
|
||
source: "official"
|
||
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc42@119-100.zip"
|
||
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s5853"
|
||
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-42/usc42.xml"
|
||
source_hash: "a2fba9b728e9c9cd727cca7878c517183c813c74382fd8aa84ec5238b39fb9ea"
|
||
raw_snapshot_hash: "644321055a08eb1f260a6a3e31ac157fa024756abf612a9fd6857e7e400cf24e"
|
||
text_hash: "8234dc609b04fca05dae6f00448c1305020d7861cfe34f9a1649f14370030b41"
|
||
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
|
||
confidence: "official"
|
||
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
# 42 U.S.C. § 5853 - Limitation on legal fee reimbursement
|
||
|
||
## Text
|
||
|
||
The Department of Energy shall not, except as required under a contract entered into before August 8, 2005, reimburse any contractor or subcontractor of the Department for any legal fees or expenses incurred with respect to a complaint subsequent to—
|
||
|
||
(1) an adverse determination on the merits with respect to such complaint against the contractor or subcontractor by the Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Hearings and Appeals pursuant to part 708 of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, or by a Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge pursuant to section 5851 of this title; or
|
||
|
||
(2) an adverse final judgment by any State or Federal court with respect to such complaint against the contractor or subcontractor for wrongful termination or retaliation due to the making of disclosures protected under chapter 12 of title 5, section 5851 of this title, or any comparable State law,
|
||
|
||
unless the adverse determination or final judgment is reversed upon further administrative or judicial review.
|
||
|
||
(Pub. L. 93–438, title II, § 212, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title VI, § 627, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 784.)
|