U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 20, 2018
FCA traps, zaps and zingers
Defense attorneys are applauding a district judge’s recent ruling in a False Claims Act case.
Common sense and the federal False Claims Act are seldom brought together as satisfactorily as the recent order by Judge Steven Merryday in United States and State of Florida ex rel. Angela Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation LLC et al., 8:11-cv-1303-T-23TBM (M.D. Fla. Jan. 11, 2018). Judge Merryday's order throws out a jury's $350 million judgment against several defendants that operated a Florida-based rehabilitation chain on the grounds that t...
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