False Claims Act Insights - Emptying Our FCA Notebook: A Summary of Recent FCA-Related Developments
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Host Jonathan Porter welcomes back to the show Husch Blackwell litigator Tanner Cook to discuss an assortment of recent False Claims Act-related legal and policy developments. A U.S. Supreme Court FCA decision, a rare FCA...more
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the request of qui tam relators that it review the Sixth Circuit’s recent decision in United States of America ex rel. Martin v. Hathaway, No. 22-1463 (6th Cir.). In so doing, the...more
The emerging circuit split on the causation standard used to identify claims “resulting from” violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) for purposes of the False Claims Act (FCA) raises proof problems for relators and the...more
In 2010, Congress amended the Anti-Kickback Statute (the “AKS”) to provide that “a claim that includes items or services resulting from a violation of [the AKS] constitutes a false or fraudulent claim” for purposes of the...more
On July 26, 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion interpreting the standard for the causal link the government must show to establish that a “false or fraudulent” claim under the False Claims Act...more
The Eighth Circuit released an opinion Tuesday in U.S. ex rel. Cairns v. D.S. Medical LLC that creates a new circuit split on the interpretation of the causation standard for establishing that a claim “resulting from” a...more
Last month, for the second time, the D.C. Circuit in In re Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., No. 14-5319, slip op. (D.C. Cir. Aug. 11, 2015), granted a writ of mandamus sought by KBR and vacated a series of district court orders...more