John Boese

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Fourth Circuit Holds That A $24 Million FCA Penalty Is Not An "Excessive Fine" Even Where The Relator Fails To Prove That The United States Suffered Any Economic Harm

Seventh Circuit Reins In Justice Department’s Overreaching False Claims Act Damages Theory

Civil False Claims Act: Eighth Circuit Rejects Justice Department Efforts To Avoid Paying Relators’ Share On Settlement "Unrelated" To Relators’ Qui Tam Claims

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Sixth Circuit Reverses $82 Million FCA Judgment That Would Have Punished A Company "Solely For Seeking To Maximize Profits" Under Federal Regulations

SEC Announces First Whistleblower Award

District Court Rules That Wartime Suspension Of Limitations Act Suspends False Claims Act’s Six-Year Statute Of Limitations

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: ABA Holds Ninth National Institute On The Civil False Claims Act And "Qui Tam" Enforcement June 6-8

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: D.C. Circuit Reinforces SAIC Decision In False Certification Case, Rejecting FCA Damages Claim In Case Based On Lack Of Supporting Documentation

Court Applies Contra Proferentem Doctrine Against The Government In An FCA Case Based On An Ambiguous Contract Provision

Remarks At Justice Department Celebration Of 25th Anniversary Of 1986 Amendments

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Sixth Circuit Joins Second And Fifth Circuits In Holding That FCA Claims Based On Implied False Certifications Must Allege And Prove That The Alleged Violation Was A Prerequisite To Payment

FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Supreme Court Holds That Government FOIA Responses Are "Public Disclosures" And That "Opportunistic" FCA Suits Based On Information Obtained Via FOIA Cannot Proceed

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument On Whether A FOIA Response Is A "Public Disclosure"

The New SEC Whistleblower Program: What the SEC Has Learned (at Least For Now) From the False Claims Act About Avoiding Whistleblower Abuses

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: D.C. Circuit Holds that "Collective Knowledge" is an Inappropriate Basis for FCA Liability

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Fifth Circuit Holds "Prerequisite to Payment" is a Fundamental Requirement in Establishing "Falsity" in a False Certification Case

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Tenth Circuit Breaks New Ground by Requiring Dismissal of Reverse False Claim Jury Verdict Based on "Allison Engine" Intent Requirement

Civil False Claims Act: Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Another "Public Disclosure" Issue: Are Documents Obtained Through FOIA Requests "Public Disclosures" Under the False Claims Act?

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Here They Go Again, Round III: Financial Reform Bill Contains More FCA Amendments

CIVIL FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Justice Department Urges Supreme Court to Deny Certiorari on Original Source and Rule 9(b) Questions in Duxbury, but Suggests that the Court Should Grant Certiorari in Hopper Where Rule 9(b) Issue is "Squarely Presented"