United States of America, Ex Rel. James M. Hagood v. Sonoma County Water Agency, James M. Hagood v. Sonoma County Water Agency

How courts have described this case

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• finding that civil penalties may be imposed without actual damages
• noting in dicta that a defendant’s “‘inability to retain money that it should never have received in the first place’ is not the kind of detrimental reliance that justifies estoppel against the government”
• “[T]he knowledge possessed by officials of the United States may____show that the defendant did not submit its claim in deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard of the truth.”
• qui tam suit not barred because based upon “information [that] was not publicly disclosed”
• “That the relevant government officials know of the 21 falsity is not in itself a defense.”
• “No damages need be shown in order to recover the penalty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).