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False Claims Act Retaliation Decision Calls into Question the Heightened Burden for Employees Whose Duties Include Compliance and Fraud Investigation

Hall Render

The case, brought under the anti-retaliation provision of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), is available here. Since 2009, the FCA’s anti-retaliation provision,(codified at 31 U.S.C. This category of individuals is sometimes called a “fraud alert employee.”

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Drug & Device Law

The less widely adopted Uniform Computer & Information Technology Act, §102(a)(35), similarly defines intangible “information” separately from “goods.” 230(c)(1), that bars liability claims against internet website operators. . 230(c)(1), that bars liability claims against internet website operators. 3d 1283 (Fed.

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Dealing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on Standards Compliance Evidence

Drug & Device Law

2006) – a precedential holding that the same Pennsylvania rule barring strict liability claims against prescription drugs also applied to prescription medical devices − should not be followed because the plaintiffs in Creazzo were supposedly “pro se.” That was false, based on a printer’s error, and that error has now been corrected.