Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Welch v. My Left Foot Children's Therapy, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2017No. 16-16070PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
Originally enacted in 1863, the False Claims Act (FCA) establishes a scheme that permits either the Attorney General, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(a), or a private party, § 3730(b), to maintain a civil action against “any person” who “knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for payment” to an employee of the United States government. § 3729(a). When brought by a private party, an “enforcement action under the FCA is called a qui tam action, with the private party referred to as the relator.” United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New…
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