Recent U.S. Department of Justice enforcement and qui tam suits demonstrate that Small Business Administration lenders face increasing risk of liability under the False Claims Act. This article provides an overview of SBA...more
The government and qui tam plaintiffs are increasingly employing statistical sampling in False Claims Act cases, particularly in cases where addressing and analyzing large numbers of allegedly false claims poses substantial...more
The U.S. courts of appeals disagree along two, perhaps three, lines over both the scope and validity of the doctrine of implied false certification under the False Claims Act. These divergences mean that motion practice and...more
On Feb. 25, 2015, the Sixth Circuit became the latest federal court of appeals to weigh in on the scope of the False Claims Act’s public disclosure bar in its decision in United States ex rel. Whipple v. Chattanooga-Hamilton...more