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The False Claims Act of 1863 (FCA) [1] is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies ... Changes to the Public Disclosure Bar.
Rockwell International Corp. v. United States, 549 U.S. 457 (2007), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court examined the "original source" exception to the "public-disclosure" bar of the False Claims Act. The Court held that (1) the original source requirement of the FCA provision setting for the original-source exception to ...
The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission on Tuesday issued a $5,000 fine to the Washington State Republican Party for four campaign finance and political advertising violations.. The PDC ...
In the U.S., public disclosure of an invention results in the loss of patentability of the invention after a period of one year. [3]35 U.S.C. § 102 establishes various statutory bars to invention patentability with regard to invention novelty; these explicit bars preclude patentability as exceptions to a general underlying entitlement.
The False Claims Act provides civil remedies for non-government workers. Qui tam is a provision under the False Claims Act that allows private individuals to sue on behalf of the government. Separate remedies are available for government workers. This False Claims Act helps to make sure claims are truthful, accurate, valid, and fair.
A non-public person's right to privacy from publicity is balanced against the First Amendment right of free speech. False light laws are "intended primarily to protect the plaintiff's mental or emotional well-being". [18] If a publication of information is false, then a tort of defamation might have occurred.
The five-member Public Disclosure Commission administers and enforces the Campaign Disclosure and Contribution Act. It meets, usually in Olympia, on the fourth Thursday of each month, except during November and December, when a combined meeting is scheduled for the first or second week of December. The current chair of the Commission is Fred ...
The settlement also resolved four lawsuits pending in federal court in the District of Massachusetts four separate qui tam cases brought by whistleblowers under the False Claims Act. [26] The civil charges were settled for $2 billion of the total $3 billion resolution, a record number for civil settlements brought under the False Claims Act. [27]