For 23 years, the Ninth Circuit required that a relator establish three elements to qualify as an “original source” under the False Claims Act: (1) the relator must have direct and independent knowledge of the information on...more
7/8/2015
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False Billing ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
First-to-File ,
Medicare ,
Original Source ,
Public Disclosure ,
Qui Tam ,
Relators ,
Remand ,
Reversal ,
Wang Requirements
In a brief unpublished memorandum opinion released on June 15, 2015, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of an FCA claim brought against a tribe, holding that tribes do not fit within the FCA’s...more
In an important decision regarding the False Claims Act’s much-litigated “public disclosure” bar, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently concluded that the disclosure of reports and audits to...more