Area 51 Productions v. City of Alameda

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• endorsing a but-for causation standard for retaliation claims under the False Claims Act
• “A party can be held to concessions and admissions its counsel made at oral argument.”
• to sufficiently allege a causal connection between protected activity under the False Claims Act and an adverse action, a plaintiff must “show that the harm he suffered would not have occurred in the absence of, that is, but for his protected conduct”
• to sufficiently allege a causal connection between protected activity under the False Claims Act and an adverse action, a plaintiff must “show that the harm he suffered would not have occurred in the absence of, that is, but for his protected conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).