United States Ex Rel. Shupe v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that False Claims Act liability attaches where “Government has given even a drop of treasury money to the defrauded entity”
• concluding that the Government did not provide any of the requested money because “there are no federal funds involved in the [E-Rate] program”
• holding that although the FCC maintains a regulatory interest in the USF funds, it does not “provide” any of the funds, and thus disbursements were not subject to the False Claims Act
• noting with approval that “courts have found that the Government `provides any portion' of the money requested when the Government has given [a program] even a drop of treasury money”
• describing the structure and function of USAC

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).