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Civil False Claims Act: D.C. Circuit reinforces SAIC decision in false certification case, rejecting FCA damages claim in case based on lack of supporting documentation

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 23 2012

In late 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a seminal decision rejecting the government’s damages theory in a civil False Claims Act “false certification” case

How can employers deflect the cat's paw?

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 17 2011

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the “cat’s paw” theory of employment discrimination -- that an employer can be liable for the discriminatory animus of an employee who influences, but does not make, an ultimate employment decision -- applies to claims brought under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), the law that protects individuals called to military service during their private employment

Creating a split with the Second Circuit, the Sixth Circuit approves sick leave policies that may reveal a disability to a supervisor

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • March 3 2011

In Lee v City of Columbus, the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to a class of employees at the Columbus police department

Recent US Supreme Court decision on student search and seizure, something every school administrator should be aware of

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 2 2009

On June 25, 2009, the United States Supreme Court of Appeals issued an important decision in Safford Unified Sch. Dist. 1 v. Redding, relating to whether the 4th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits a public school from conducting a search of a student suspected of possessing and distributing prescription drugs on campus in violation of school policy

Health reform legislation includes significant amendments to the False Claims Act and the anti-kickback statute

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 25 2010

Hidden in the sweeping health care legislation signed into law March 23, 2010 are two amendments that could significantly increase the number of whistleblower-driven lawsuits in the federal courts

Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc

  • Vedder Price PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 15 2010

The United States Supreme Court has granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case with the potential to have a significant impact on the commercialization of technology where government funding has been provided in its development

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Plaintiff cannot avoid oral settlement agreement because of defendants' unrelated nondisclosure

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 14 2011

After School District 70 fired Debra Lewis, she brought suit

Second Circuit’s Caronia decision striking down on First Amendment grounds the criminal conviction of a pharmaceutical sales representative for off-label promotion could have broad implications

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 4 2013

On December 3, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the conviction of Alfred Caronia ("Caronia"), who had been tried

DOJ recovers up to $48 million in False Claim Act case resulting from whistleblower report

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 23 2013

In yet another large recovery for the DOJ, on December 6, 2012, DFB Pharmaceuticals, and its subsidiary, Healthpoint Ltd., agreed as part of a