On September 30, 2024, US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida held in United States ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act...more
The Seventh Circuit’s novel statutory interpretation of the government’s dismissal authority under 31 USC § 3730(c)(2)(A) may have unintended consequences. ...more
8/21/2020
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Just as the government’s exercise of its statutory authority to dismiss non-intervened False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam cases was beginning to pick up steam, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a new...more