Brodtmann v. Zurich General Accident & Liability Ins.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that amendments to the FCA “actually 19 increased, rather than decreased, executive control over qui tam lawsuits”
• adopting a rational-relation test for reviewing the government’s motion to dismiss a qui tam lawsuit
• rejecting the contention that lack of merit is the exclusive ground on which the government can seek dismissal
• approving of district court’s consideration of “the burden imposed on the taxpayers by its litigation” and “internal staff costs” the government would occur with relator’s litigation
• requiring the government to meet the valid purpose and rational relationship standard
• evidence that problems with lemon marketing were “potentially as pervasive” as those in orange industry was sufficient to extend dismissal to lemon industry action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).