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U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
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Federal district court denies motion to dismiss
March 14, 2022
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee denied the motion to dismiss, both (1) concluding that complaint alleged plausible direct and reverse false claims under the False Claims Act (FCA) and (2) rejecting argument that the government’s allegation that a company received an overpayment does not impose an immediate duty to repay that is enforceable under the FCA.
U.S. Chamber submits amicus brief in Eastern District of Tennessee, arguing that the government’s allegedation receipt of that a company received an overpayment does not impose an immediate duty to repay that is enforceable under the False Claims Act
August 09, 2021
Click here to view the brief. I. Cason Hewgley IV, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, and Jeremy M. Bylund of King & Spalding LLP and the U.S. Chamber’s Litigation Center served as co-counsel for the U.S. Chamber.