False Claims Act
VFATA: Virginia's False Claims Act
... In 2003, Virginia joined the growing body of states that have enacted some version of a civil false claims act.' The Virginia Fraud Against Tax- payers Act (VFATA) [r] ...
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False Claims Act The Civil War Antitrust Sword: United States v Beatrice Foods Co
... False Claims Act The Civil War Antitrust Sword United States v Beatrice Foods Co SMU Law Review Volume 25 | Issue 5 Article 8 1971 False Claims Act The Civil War Antitrust Sword United States v Beatri[.] ...
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The Dark Side of the Boom: The Peculiar Dilemma of Modern False Claims Act Litigation
... allegedly false or incorrect statements made by MDHC and the government’s decision to purchase the Apache aircraft” and that, “[c]onsequently, actual damages ...Civil False Claims Actions, 24 P UB ...
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The False Claims Act: An Old Weapon with New Firepower Is Aimed at Health Care Fraud
... Under the False Claims Act, a defendant is liable for know- ingly presenting to the United States government any false or fraudulent claim for payment. False record[r] ...
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The Government's Use of the Civil False Claims Act to Enforce Standards of Quality of Care: Integrity or the Heavy Hand of the 800-Pound Gorilla
... It invoked the False Claims Act ("FCA") 2 in combination with the Nursing Home Reform Act 3 to allege that billing the government for purportedly inadequate care w[r] ...
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Using the False Claims Act to Remedy Tax-Expenditure Fraud
... federal False Claims Act (FCA) may be a tool for combating fraudulent claims regarding tax ...a false or fraudulent claim relating to an expenditure of federal ...such claims, as ...
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The Qui Tam Provision of the Federal False Claims Act: The Statute in Current Form, Its History and Its Unique Position to Influence the Health Care Industry
... of silence" surrounding Government fraud. Hess, the United States Supreme Court held that this type of suit was legal under the statute. 1 9 In response to Marcus, Congres[r] ...
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The Civil False Claims Act: Using Lincoln’s Law to Protect the European Community Budget. CEPS Policy Brief No. 43, December 2003
... would act on behalf of the Community and the member states, and in cases with solely a national dimension, the national agency would apply the CFCA on behalf of the state and the Community, with the national ...
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Twenty-Five Years of Health Law through the Lens of the Civil False Claims Act
... Recent qui tam litigation has focused heavily on the complicated legal provisions governing who can serve as a relator, including considerations of what it means for a [r] ...
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Restating the "Original Source Exception" to the False Claims Act's "Public Disclosure Bar"
... fraudulent transaction does not alter the fact that the material elements of the violation have already been publicly disclosed."... "If a relator merely uses his [r] ...
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Games and Stories: Game Theory and the Civil False Claims Act
... relator’s claims and prepare the case if the DOJ de- termines it is meritorious, the delay hurts the relator because it gives time for more rela- tors to file qui tam lawsuits regarding the same ...
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The Government, the Legislature and the Judiciary - Working Towards Remedying the Problems with the Civil False Claims Act: Where Do We Go From Here?
... In order to assert the jurisdictional bar as a defense, the defen- dant must show that (1) there has been a public disclosure of allegations or transactions; (2) [r] ...
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Implied Certification and Materiality Should Be Distinct Elements When Assessing False Claims Act Liability
... The relator alleged that Blackstone engaged in a nationwide kickback scheme to induce hospitals and physicians to submit materially false or fraudulent claims to Me[r] ...
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Mixing Oil and Water: The Government's Mistaken Use of the Medicare Anti-Kickback Statute in False Claims Act Prosecutions
... In Pogue, for the first time, a district court undertook an ex- tended analysis of whether a person may allege a violation of the FCA upon alleging a violation [r] ...
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The False Claims Act and the Eroding Scienter in Healthcare Fraud Litigation
... This paper addresses the federal government's expansive methods in tackling healthcare fraud, particularly in misapplying the FCA. Although tasked with the obligation of[r] ...
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In Spite of Its Good Intentions, the Dodd Frank Act Has Created an FCPA Monster
... (“The False Claims Act promotes a ‘working partnership’ between the qui tam plaintiff and the government by effectively deputizing private citizens to prosecute fraud against the federal government ...
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The Stark Reality: Is the Federal Physician Self-Referral Law Bad for the Health Care Industry
... The combination of FERA's increased exposure to False Claims Act liability, health care providers' inability to self-disclose if they discover a Stark Law violation, [r] ...
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The Federal Income Taxation of Contingent Attorneys' Fees: Patchwork by Congress and Supreme Court Creates Uncertainty
... 5 4 Although the Jobs Act applies to Federal False Claims Act cases, claims brought under state counterpart legislation are not entitled to an above-the-line deduc- tion [r] ...
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Review of Truth in Fiction: Rethinking its Logic
... and false together makes them inconsistent. Since they aren’t true and false in all the same respects spares them the contradictoriness that flows from the fullest formulation of LNC” (the Law of ...
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Another Small Step for the Second Circuit Might Be a Giant Leap for Section 43(A) of the Lanham Act
... Lanham Act to justify the view that this section is merely declarative of existing ...of false representation of goods in commerce and has given a broad class of suitors injured or likely to be injured by ...
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