What High Court's Expansion Of FCA Time Limits Would Mean

By Brian Tully McLaughlin, Jason Crawford and Sarah Hill (April 4, 2019, 3:05 PM EDT) -- On March 19, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Cochise Consultancy Inc. et al. v. United States ex rel. Hunt to resolve a circuit split as to whether qui tam relators can invoke the tolling provision in the False Claims Act in cases where the material facts are learned after the standard six-year statute of limitations has run, and if so, whose knowledge — the relator's or the government's — starts the running of the clock.[1] This article examines the case and considers what the Supreme Court's decision in Hunt could mean for practitioners....

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