Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jul. 7, 2007
Construction Falsities
Focus Column - By Roland Nikles - A case in the California Supreme Court has created a sea change in the administration of the state's public construction contracts.
By Roland Nikles
The federal civil False Claims Act was enacted in 1863 to guard against Civil War profiteering. The government's use of the act has waxed and waned, and following World War II, the act was seldom used. Over the past two decades, though, false-claims actions have returned with a vengeance, sparked by the political climate of the 1980s, $600 toilet seats and c...
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