Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Gagne v. City of Worcester
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 8, 2009No. 08-1904PublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This appeal involves the standards for pleading with particularity fraud claims brought under two subsections of the False Claims Act (“FCA”) concerned with making false records or statements to get false claims paid and conspiring to defraud the government by getting false claims paid. 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(2) and (a)(3).
Plaintiffs mistakenly read the Supreme Court’s 2008 opinion in Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders, — U.S. -, 128 S.Ct. 2123, 170 L.Ed.2d 1030 (2008), as having altered the requirements of pleading fraud with particularity set forth in United…
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