JD Supra1d
False Claim Act Liability Under Anti-Kickback Statute Requires But-For Causation: First Circuit Narrows Liability in Growing Circuit Split
On February 18, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in U.S. v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, ruling ...
The National Law Review1d
Anti-Kickback Statute Premised False Claims Cases: The “But For” Causation Standard Finds Support from First Circuit
It’s now 3–1, with the First Circuit (2025) aligning with the Sixth (2023) and Eighth (2022) Circuits finding the meaning of ...
JD Supra12h
First Circuit Adopts “But-For” Causation Standard for Proving Kickback FCA Violations
In a closely watched appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled on February 18 that to satisfy the causation requirement in ...
RFK Jr. sues Cape Elizabeth man over social media posts
The new secretary of Health and Human Services is accusing David Vickrey of making false statements on social media and in a ...
Scientific American2d
Quantum Simulation Shows How Universe-Destroying ‘Bubbles’ Could Grow
Earlier this month Vodeb and his colleagues published the findings of their cosmic bubble simulation in Nature Physics. Using ...
Canadian HR Reporter2d
How to handle a whistleblower making false allegations
While organizations must investigate complaints and maintain whistleblower policies, the decision involving Jazz Aviation underscores that they are not obligated to tolerate false accusations that ...
Tempted by the False God of Convenience
But if these tools are used to take from us our basic modes of expression and relationship, if the great false god of ...
Australia to shoot scores of stranded false killer whales
Australian wildlife rangers are to euthanise 90 dolphins stuck on a remote beach by shooting them, after attempts to refloat ...
The Walrus1d
Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. But the Lie That They Do Is Still Going Strong
In 1998, Wakefield was the lead author on a paper, published in the respected medical journal The Lancet, that claimed there ...
The Punch on MSN2d
Three men in viral video not kidnappers, Lagos police investigation reveals
The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed claims circulating on social media that three men seen in a viral video were ...