Recent legal and political False Claims Act (“FCA”) developments signal a potentially turbulent time for the defense of investigations and lawsuits brought under the FCA...more
3/12/2025
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it reached a $5,500,000 settlement with a biomedical research institute that received NIH grant funding–the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI)–to resolve allegations...more
2/26/2020
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The Department of Justice recently issued an internal guidance memo to DOJ attorneys regarding the dismissal of meritless False Claims Act (FCA) cases. Michael Granston, the Director of DOJ’s Civil Fraud Section, first made...more
On January 25, 2018, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand issued a memorandum significantly restricting Department of Justice (“DOJ” or “the Department”) civil litigating units’ use of executive agency guidance documents...more