Posted by Ellyce Cooper and Patrick Kennell The ongoing saga regarding privilege and work product issues continues in United States ex rel. Barko v. Halliburton Co., No. 05-cv-1276 (D.D.C. 2005). (Our previous […]
Posted by Ellyce Cooper and Alexis Miller Buese In a recent opinion in United States ex rel. Martin v. Life Care Centers of America Inc., No. 08-cv-251 (E.D. Tenn. April 27, […]
Posted by Ellyce Cooper, Michael Andolina and Amanda Farfel On April 28, 2015, the Senate unanimously approved S. 304, the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act. The bipartisan legislation was reported out […]
Posted by Amanda Farfel, Ellyce Cooper and Michael Andolina On February 26, 2015, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act. The full text […]
Posted by Ellyce Cooper and Collin Wedel Late last month, in a closely watched False Claims Act case (about which we have previously written here, here, and here), a federal judge […]
Posted by Ellyce Cooper and Collin Wedel On January 8, 2015, in United States ex rel. Badr v. Triple Canopy, Inc., No. 13-2190, — F.3d — (4th Cir. 2015), the U.S. […]
Posted by Ellyce Cooper and Collin Wedel On August 4, 2014, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Virginia levied a verdict of $100.6 million in damages and $24 million […]
Posted by Ellyce R. Cooper and Patrick E. Kennell III In U.S. ex rel. De’von Cannon v. Rescare, Inc., No. 09-3068 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 16, 2014) (Dkt. No. ___) (“Slip Op.”), […]
Posted by Ellyce Cooper and Patrick Kennell Last Friday, the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion in In re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., No. 14-5055 (D.C. Cir. June 27, 2014), reversing the […]
Posted by Ellyce Cooper and Patrick Kennell On May 7th, a three-judge panel (Judges Thomas Griffith, Brett Kavanaugh and Sri Srinivasan) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit […]