Breaking News: The Dodd-Frank Conference Report on Amendments to the anti-retaliation provisions of the Federal False Claims Act
Last Friday evening, the
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Breaks New Ground, and Comes Out of his Corner Swinging…..
I am very pleased to announce that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has broken new legal ground in Virginia’s fight against fraudulent claims on our tax dollars. To some of you, today’s events may not that seem important, but to those […]
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
Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli Staffs Up the Office of the Attorney General
The WaPo political blog has important updates about the staffing
of Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli’s office.
It appears Ken has made some good choices, picking people with significant legal experience. Perhaps most significant for the FCA/qui tam world is Cuccinelli’s selection of Steve Buck–who
spent the last three years as Section Chief of the Health Care Fraud Section of the OAG–to head up Public Safety and Enforcement.
Charles E. James will serve as …