News & Analysis as of May 19, 2025

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Investigations Newsletter: Federal Government Urges Court of Appeals to Uphold Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions

ArentFox Schiff on 1/13/2025

Federal Government Urges Court of Appeals to Uphold Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions - In a brief filed earlier this week, the US federal government has urged the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the...more

Florida Court Ruling on False Claim Act Deems Complaints By Private Whistleblowers as Unconstitutional

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 10/4/2024

A valuable tool in filing whistleblower claims against companies related to government fraud took a potentially major hit this week when a federal judge in Florida ruled that a significant portion of the statutory scheme...more

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Justice Department to Dismiss Whistleblower Cases

King & Spalding on 6/22/2023

On June 16, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that the DOJ properly secured a dismissal of a whistleblower suit accusing Executive Health Resources Inc. of violating the False Claims Act by improperly billing Medicare....more

US Supreme Court Rules 8-1 in Favor of Government FCA Dismissal Authority

ArentFox Schiff on 6/22/2023

On June 16, 2023, in United States, ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., the US Supreme Court addressed the government’s authority to dismiss a qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) suit over a relator’s objection...more

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends - Issue 6

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/14/2020

This sixth edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19 litigation, sees us reporting on many of the same types of cases. Consumers continue to seek refunds for goods and services that have been disrupted by the...more

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