United States Ex Rel. Feldman v. Van Gorp

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the appropriate measure of damages . . . is the full amount the government paid based on materially false statements”
• finding false statements material to grant renewals, and addressing government’s receipt of qualitatively different program under damages
• finding false statements material to grant renewals, and addressing government’s receipt of qualitatively different program under damages
• describing benefit-of-the-bargain damage calculation as that available in the “run-of-the-mine breach-of contract-case.”
• government “receives nothing of measurable value” when third-party grantee uses' benefits of government grant for unapproved activities
• “If the government made payment based on a false statement, then that is enough for liability in an FCA case, regardless of whether that false statement comes at the beginning of a contractual relationship or later.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).