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The court appears likely to preserve theory of liability in False Claims Act cases

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Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and reject a ruling observers said would gut the government’s primary anti-fraud statute. The Department of Justice has used the FCA to recover more than $70 billion since 1986, largely in cases related to health care and defense contracting. At issue on Tuesday in two consolidated cases – U.S.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Derivative Litigation , No. and non-U.S. 19-1189 (U.S. filed Sept.

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Brnovich, election-law tradeoffs, and the limited role of the courts

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Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. It marks a major victory for states that seek to innovate or tinker with their election laws — to expand them or to contract them. Litigants then moved to Section 2. Democratic National Committee. 1, the “ For the People Act ”).

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