News & Analysis as of July 28, 2025

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Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain.

False Claims Act: 2024 Year in Review

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/5/2025

Bradley’s Government Enforcement and Investigations Practice Group is pleased to present the False Claims Act: 2024 Year in Review, our annual review of significant False Claims Act (FCA) cases, developments and trends. ...more

$34 Million Reversal: First Circuit Overturns Its Precedent and Redirects Relator’s FCA Award to Another

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/22/2019

Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned its own precedent to hold the FCA’s first-to-file rule is “non-jurisdictional.” In so doing, the First Circuit flipped the district court’s award...more

D.C. Circuit Interprets the First-to-File Rule Narrowly

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/26/2015

A decision this week from the D.C. Circuit shed light on three important issues. United States ex rel. Heath v. AT&T, Inc., No. 14-7094 (D.C. Cir. June 23, 2015). In 2008, the appellant, Todd Heath, filed an FCA qui tam...more

SCOTUS: No Unlimited Suspension of the Statute of Limitations Under the False Claims Act; “First-to-File” Doctrine Does Not Bar...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/28/2015

In an opinion released May 26, 2015, Kellogg Brown & Roots Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Carter, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that whistleblowers cannot extend the statute of limitations for war-related...more

False Claim Act: 2013 Year in Review

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/15/2014

Last year continued the trend of robust False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and proliferating qui tam lawsuits brought by whistleblowers on behalf of the United States. In 2012, DOJ...more

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