4th Circ. Shows Expired FCA Claims Can Haunt Contractors

By Dietrich Knauth (March 27, 2013, 9:43 PM EDT) -- The Fourth Circuit recently became the first federal appeals court to hold that a little-used World War II-era law suspends the False Claims Act's statute of limitations during wartime, a ruling that effectively eviscerates the time limits for civil fraud cases against government contractors....

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