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1 Feb 2019, 1:19 pm
Although the Trump Administration presumably intends to preclude reliance upon the statutory discount exception as permitting payment of rebates when it is removing their protection under the regulatory discount safe harbor, the potential unintended ramification could be to expose participants to existing (and past) rebate contracts to material civil and criminal liability, most notably via qui tam lawsuits. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 12:35 pm
Because false marking is a qui tam action and the statute appeared to authorize anyone to file suit, there was no need for patent attorneys to find clients who had been actually injured by the alleged false marking. [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 4:02 pm
Attorney Rob Wood, a full hour discussion on the issue of 468b trusts and their use in taxable damage cases such as Qui Tam litigation, environmental claims or sex abuse cases. [read post]
22 Nov 2006, 3:10 pm
These measures include the increased use of the qui tam action and sharing of penalties with law enforcers, the increased prevalence of punitive damages in civil cases to vindicate various public policies, the now common use of statutory civil penalties, and the expanding notion of "civil fines" for violations of federal and state regulations. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 4:06 am
The pharmaceutical companies are also not strangers to deceiving the federal government; over the past decade they’ve paid several billion dollars in qui tam cases, the result of brave whistleblowers exposing the fraud at great personal cost. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 4:14 am
(IP Osgoode) District Court E D Pennsylvania: Second District Court declares Qui Tam provisions of false marking statute unconstitutional: Rogers v. [read post]
18 Apr 2025, 10:32 am
[Judge Boasberg is about to unleash a truly independent counsel on the Trump Administration, and the President himself, subject to none of the strictures that Alexia Morrison faced.] [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 2:49 pm
” Alleging that Countrywide knowingly violated these representations by foisting subprime loans on the GSEs through the HSSL program, a former employee commenced a qui tam suit under the False Claims Act. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 12:46 pm
In 2017, a former GRI employee brought a qui tam action against GRI, alleging that GRI violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by falsely certifying to the government that certain loans were eligible for the government program. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 7:50 pm
(Patently-O) (Inventive Step) Commissioner Kappos on improving patent reexaminations (Article One Partners) (Maier & Maier) Innovation is sprouting in US Patent Office: A plea for flexibility from patent practitioners and interested parties to allow the necessary changes (IP Asset Maximizer Blog) US Patents Dr Seuss and the USPTO Application Exchange Programme (IPKat) Anticipation building: The long wait for Bilski (Maier & Maier) (271 Patent Blog) (12:01 Tuesday) (Maier & Maier)… [read post]
8 Nov 2024, 2:04 pm
” The plaintiff commenced what is sometimes called a qui tam action in the name of the state against Lyft on behalf of the Nevada Department of Employment Training and Rehabilitation. [read post]
15 May 2012, 8:55 am
Last week, the Department of Justice Announced a record $1.5 Billion settlement with Abbott Laboratories over their mislabeling of the drug Depakote. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 3:10 pm
There are even particular types of cases where "injury in fact" standing is commonly a close question; (until recently) qui tam lawsuits were often challenged on "injury in fact" grounds. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 2:34 am
Professor Redish points out that these lawyer-driven policy actions would be legitimate if Congress specifically authorized them (as it does with private attorney-general actions, parens patriae actions, and qui tam actions), but it has not done so for Rule 23 generally. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:30 am
And as the Texas SG pointed out, this isn't a qui tam lawsuit in which the state can take over the litigation. [read post]
22 Dec 2007, 7:31 am
This appeal, arising from a dispute between a law firm that represented qui tam plaintiffs and the defendant shipbuilders, raises the issue of whether the district court exceeded its discretion in awarding attorneys' fees of $1,749,245 under the False Claims Act. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 9:56 pm
Allegations Include Off-label Marketing and Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists\Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from allegations relating to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega and Natrecor, including promotion for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and payment of kickbacks to physicians and to the nation’s largest… [read post]
30 Nov 2023, 12:45 pm
The Supreme Court has never directly stated whether private attorneys general or qui tam relators need to be appointed under Article II, but this longstanding caselaw suggests that they don't. [read post]
19 Apr 2022, 5:05 am
The Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits offering or accepting kickbacks intended to generate health care business. [read post]
10 Feb 2008, 11:01 pm
They had filed a qui-tam suit which is protected, as I understand it, by the whistleblower protections under federal law and had given them to the state prosecutor in the state. [read post]
