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Inslaw, Inc. is a Washington, D.C. based information technology company. In the mid-1970s, Inslaw developed for the United States Department of Justice a computer program known as Prosecutor's Management Information System (Promis). Inslaw's principal owners, William Anthony Hamilton and his wife, Nancy Burke Hamilton, later sued the United States Government for not complying with the terms of the Promis contract and for refusing to pay for an enhanced version of Promis once delivered. This allegation of software piracy led to three trials in separate federal courts and two congressional hearings.
During the ensuing investigations, the Department of Justice was accused of deliberately attempting to drive Inslaw into Chapter 7 liquidation; and of distributing and selling stolen software for covert intelligence operations against foreign governments such as Canada, Israel, Singapore, Iraq, Egypt, and Jordan.