In Re: Commitment of Timothy Lynn Loving, Jr. v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the focus of the FCA’s scienter element is a defendant’s “knowledge and subjective beliefs,” not “what an objectively reasonable person may have known or believed”
• stating that these are “two essential elements” of a False Claims Act violation
• cautioning against “read[ing] a footnote” in an opinion to “establish the general rule” for a line of cases
• cautioning against “read[ing] a footnote” to “establish the general rule” for a class of cases
• noting the focus is on a defendant’s actual knowledge at the time the alleged false claim was submitted
• “The FCA’s scienter element refers to respondents’ knowledge and subjective beliefs—not to what an objectively reasonable person may have known or believed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).