United States v. David J. Brown and Liston Judge

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

In this action for civil penalties under the False Claims Act, 1 2 the District Court, influenced by the disparity between the amount of the mandatory penalty and the amount of the claims, entered judgment for the defendants upon the ground their claims were not presented directly to Commodity Credit Corporation. Under the scheme by which price supports are extended to tobacco, the farmers’ claims of the support price are not filed immediately with Commodity, but that circumstance does not distinguish the case from comparable claims for the support price of other…