Pencheng Si v. Laogai Research Foundation Foundation

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that FERA added this broad definition of “obligation” to reject the narrower interpretation that certain- courts had adopted
• explaining in a FCA case that, under the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine, an entity “cannot conspire with its employees, and its employees, when acting within the scope of their employment, cannot conspire among themselves”
• “Like the'Court in Pencheng Si, this Court finds that the fraudulent actions alleged here do not trigger an obligation to repay the fraudulently obtained money.”
• \ '[T]here can be no liability for conspiracy where there is no underlying violation of the FCA.' \
• “[B]y this logic, just about any traditional false statement or presentment action would give rise to a reverse false claim action....”
• “[T]here can be no liability for conspiracy where there is no underlying violation of the FCA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).