the decade of the 40s was an application for a license from the Federal Power Commission to build a dam, reservoir, and hydro-electric power plant on the Cedar River near Moscow, Iowa. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and back, before agency approval was sustained in 1950 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

In 1954, Haley's nephew, Michael Haley Bader, joined the firm as an associate attorney. A law graduate of George Washington University, Bader had clerked