United States of America, Ex Rel. Ronald K. Bain v. Georgia Gulf Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “reverse false claims act does not extend to the potential or contingent obligations to pay the government fines or penalties which have not been levied or assessed (and as to which no formal proceedings to do so have been instituted)” (emphasis in original)
• describing the holdings in Q Int’l and Am. Textile Mfrs. but declining to decide whether to adopt the same approach
• “[T]he reverse false claims act does not extend to the potential or contingent obligations to pay the government fines or penalties which have not been levied or assessed.”
• no jurisdiction over claim not yet ruled on by the district court
• “It is clear to us that . . . the reverse false claims act does not extend to the potential or contingent obligations to pay the government fines or 11 penalties which have not been levied or assessed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).