Escobar Wrecks $663M Guardrail FCA Judgment At 5th Circ.

By Kat Greene (September 29, 2017, 10:52 PM EDT) -- The Fifth Circuit on Friday overturned a $663 million judgment against Trinity Industries Inc. in an FCA suit over allegedly defective highway guardrails, finding that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Escobar undermined the whistleblower's case because the government — the purported victim — kept paying the claims....

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