United States Ex Rel. Allen Lamers v. City of Green Bay

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a qui tarn plaintiff may not use the FCA to “preempt” a federal agency’s “discretionary decision not to pursue regulatory penalties;” “the FCA is not an appropriate vehicle for policing technical compliance with administrative regulations”
• noting that “promises of future compliance” are knowingly false only if the party making that promise “never intended to comply”
• holding public-disclosure bar did not apply where relator “walked the streets” as a “private investigator” observing the school bus operations at issue
• explaining that the “FCA is not an appropriate vehicle for policing technical compliance with administrative regulations”
• reasoning that “faulty calculations,” “flawed. reasoning,” “imprecise statements,” or “differences in interpretation growing out of a disputed legal question” are not “false” under the False Claims Act
• requiring an objective falsehood based on a test that conflates an analysis of the falsity and knowledge elements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).