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Whistleblowers Anti-Kickback Statute Dismissals

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Defense-Friendly Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act Marketing and Advertising Decisions

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On April 14, 2025, the Seventh and Second Circuits each issued opinions narrowing the scope of advertising, marketing, and booking fee activities that run afoul of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). See United States v....more

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Public Disclosure Bar Applies – Court Dismisses Whistleblower’s False Claims Complaint

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A recent U.S. District Court decision provides a good example of how federal courts will apply the public disclosure/original source rules in whistleblower cases alleging that health care providers violated the False Claims...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Post-Granston Memo, DOJ Can Use Its Dismissal Authority, but Not Without Limits

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In a memo leaked last year (the Granston Memo), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) instructed its prosecutors to more seriously consider dismissing meritless whistleblower False Claims Act (FCA) cases when it is in the...more

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Mintz Levin Health Care Qui Tam Update - February 2019

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Overview of Qui Tam Activity - We identified 49 health care-related qui tam cases that were unsealed in September and October 2018. The government intervened in whole or in part in 10 of those 49 unsealed cases, which...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

False Claims Act: 2018 Year in Review

INTRODUCTION - Unlike some recent years, 2018 was somewhat short on headline grabbing news related to the False Claims Act (FCA). There were, to be sure, significant developments in the courts and within the Department of...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Vitality of the Employee Exemption to the Anti-Kickback Statute

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On Aug. 7, 2018, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a whistleblower case brought under the federal False Claims Act. The principal grounds for affirmance was a finding that the employee exemption to...more

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