New Opinion on Reasonable Attorney’s Fees in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Today Judge Cacheris issued a favorable opinion on my petition for attorney’s fees in a Fair Labor Standards Act case. Although the case was an FLSA case and not a False Claims Act case, the same concepts apply to any prevailing plaintiff in […]
My apologies for posting this important news so late…..
The power to dismiss a case based on the public disclosure bar (found at 31 U.S.C. 3730(e)(4)(A))is back in the hands of the Department of Justice; also, The “original source” exception to the public disclosure bar is expanded by the PPACA to include any relator who can add “knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclosed allegations or transactions.”
PPACA makes it clear that retention of overpayments by health care providers is unlawful, and lays down strict new guidelines for the return of overpayments.
The travails of Colorado, and perhaps an interesting new change in strategy from the enemies of fiscal responsibility…..
Breaking news from the front lines in Colorado has that state’s proposed false claims act (I believe it is SB 187) being amended to include the following language: WHEN A RELATOR BRINGS AN ACTION UNDER THIS SUBSECTION (2), THE […]
Connecticut becomes the 26th state to pass a state False Claims Act
Connecticut becomes the 26th state to pass a state False Claims Act. My apologies for missing this, but in December of 2009 Connecticut became the twenty-sixth state to pass a state false claims act. The Connecticut statute–which contains a qui […]
Important New Opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
An important
March 2, 1863: On This Day in History…
On March 2, 1863 the 37th Congress passed the federal False Claims Act, making today the 147th birthday of the statute. And just think–after all that history, the best is yet to come!
The Virginia Supreme Court ends a series of misguided attempts to abuse the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act
The Supreme Court of Virginia issued its first Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act opinion in Ligon v. County of Goochland, in the process ending a misguided attempt to turn the statute into something other than a tool to fight fraud on the Commonwealth.
Report from Annapolis on the Maryland False Claims Act
Resistance to the idea of a Maryland False Claims Act appears to be crumbling. Maryland needs a true false claims act.
Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund files amicus brief in ACLU et al. v. Eric Holder, et al. in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Today, TAFEF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in the case captioned ACLU et al. v. Eric Holder, et al., 09-2086. A copy of the amicus is available
Missouri’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Ranked Number One in FY 2008, Despite Not Having a State False Claims Act
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said today that Missouri has earned the distinction of returning more money to the public fisc through Medicaid fraud prosecutions than any other state in the nation. This is, however, only when the federal Medicaid grant […]