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Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report – 6.30.2022

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Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Multistate Reaches Settlement with Carnival...more

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Seventh Circuit Endorses Objective Reasonableness as a Defense under the FCA

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In a much-awaited Seventh Circuit decision, the court joined four other circuits in endorsing the “objective reasonableness” defense under the federal False Claims Act (FCA). In a 2-1 panel decision, the court not only upheld...more

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Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissed FCA Case against Walmart involving Opiate Prescription Allegations

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dismissed a relator-pharmacist’s False Claim Act (FCA) case, holding that the pharmacist claims, largely based on a stolen Medical Expenses Summary, lacked merit. In U.S. ex....more

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Eight Years Later: “Speculative” and “Straightforward” FCA Allegations Against Walmart Dismissed

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Walmart successfully ended eight years of protracted litigation under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) on June 4, 2021, when the Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal of Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations against the major...more

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Corporate Investigations and White Collar Defense - June 2016

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Eye on the Supreme Court—Corruption and Fraud Edition - Why it matters: This session, the Supreme Court has undertaken the review of numerous cases that raise thorny issues arising in the white collar context. In our...more

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Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense - June 2015

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The Unfolding FIFA Scandal: Will the DOJ Show the Banks a Red Card? - Why it matters: The worldwide soccer community has for years decried the brazen corruption that permeated FIFA, international soccer’s governing...more

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Pro Se and Ex Rel. Don’t Mix, Even for Attorney Whistleblowers

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William Verrinder filed a False Claims Act against three of America’s biggest companies—Wal-Mart, Sears and Rite-Aid—claiming they charged Medicare for expired drugs. Since he’s a lawyer himself, he filed pro se. That way he...more

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