United States of America Ex Rel. Robert A. Durcholz, and Durcholz Excavating and Construction Co., Inc. v. Fkw Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing in certain cases “the [G]overnment’s knowledge [of the particulars of a claim] effectively negates the fraud or falsity required by the FCA”
• affirming summary judgment where Relator’s evidence “did not tend to show that [one defendant] shared [the other defendant’s] conspiratorial motive”
• “If the government knows and approves of the particulars of a claim for payment before that claim is presented, the presenter cannot be said to have knowingly presented a fraudulent or false claim.”
• “The FCA provides 8 for conspiracy claims, and general civil conspiracy principles apply.”
• general civil conspiracy principles apply to conspiracy claims under the FCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).