Interesting Reading from the Wall Street Journal…
Carrick Mollenkamp and Tom McGinty over at the Wall Street Journal did an article this week that may be of interest to readers … here are some links to the explanatory graphics on WSJ.com. Here is a link to a WaPo article […]
Announcing the First New York State False Claims Act Conference
In a strong show of New York state’s support for its False Claims Act, today New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a CLE-certified conference on the strengthened New York False Claims Act. The conference will take place on […]
SCOTUS Issues Opinion in Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States
In breaking news, today the Supreme Court of the United States announced its
Judge Payne says “Hire Local Counsel in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia”
The Virginia Lawyers Weekly blog has an excellent post today on the importance of local counsel in the Rocket Docket. Indeed, lawyers outside the rocket docket are often unfamiliar with the speed and intensity of litigation in the E.D.Va., and little things–like the fact […]
Announcing upcoming CLE Seminar on Statutory Attorney’s Fees in Virginia Courts
I will be speaking at an upcoming seminar through Virginia CLE which may be of interest to some readers. The seminar concerns court-awarded attorney’s fees in Virginia’s state and federal courts, with a focus on the mechanics of fee petitions, and fee-shifting litigation. […]
Why do you think all the most business-friendly states have state False Claims Acts?
Over the past few years I have noticed that certain questions and objections sometimes arise when a state considers a state False Claims Act. Today’s post deals with the single most common objection and/or question. As an aside, I have also […]
Important Considerations for Settlement in a Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act case
As I have said many times, there is no practice area quite as complicated as false claims act litigation under either the federal False Claims Act or the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (or for that matter under any of […]
Two Major–and Historic–Events in the Past Seven Days…
In the last seven days, two major historic events occurred. Although very few Virginians paid attention or cared, we will all notice the benefit bestowed on our Commonwealth by these two events…On Saturday, March 26th, Governor Bob McDonnell signed groundbreaking amendments to […]
The New and Improved Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act is “Enrolled” And Sent to the Governor!
As of yesterday, March 3, 2011, SB1262 was “enrolled” by the Virginia General Assembly!
An enrolled bill is the final printed version of the bill as passed by the House of Delegates and the Senate, signed by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate (the Lieutenant
Governor) and transmitted to the Governor for his signature.
I also have a correction to make. Earlier, I had reported that Illinois was …
Stephen Kohn blogs about the ACLU lawsuit attacking the seal provisions of the federal False Claims Act
Last month the Whistleblowers Protection Blog did an excellent post following up on the ACLU’s attack on the federal False Claims Act. After the District Court’s dismissal of the ACLU’s lawsuit, the ACLU appealed the matter to the Fourth Circuit Court […]