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Litigation

Mar. 31, 2015

Off-label drug marketing whistleblower suit thrown out

Citing past whistleblower cases centered on the same allegations, a California federal judge has thrown out a False Claims Act case against three companies accused of marketing drugs illegally.


By Kibkabe Araya


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Citing past whistleblower cases centered on the same allegations, a California federal judge has thrown out a False Claims Act case against three companies accused of marketing drugs illegally.


U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. of the Eastern District dismissed the qui tam case because the plaintiff couldn't prove he was the first to sound the alarm on the pharmaceutical companies'...

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