Medina v. Arizona

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the amended FCA anti-retaliation language broadens the scope of protected activity
• holding that under the second prong, “while the plaintiff's actions need not ‘lead to a viable FCA action’ as required under the distinct possibility standard, they must still have a nexus to an FCA violation”
• reasoning that a relator asserting a claim under § 3729(a)(1)(B)\is still required to show that a false claim was submitted to the government\
• noting that \plaintiff's actions need not lead to a viable\ qui tam action, but \they must still have a nexus to a[ ] [False Claims Act] violation\
• noting that “plaintiff’s actions need not lead to a viable” qui tam action, but “they must still have a nexus to an FCA violation”
• stating that the treble-damages provision in the False Claims Act suggests the “gravity and ‘quasi-criminal nature’ of FCA liability”

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