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• observing that 28 U.S.C. § 1345 “applies to suits in which the United States is a plaintiff”
• noting that “courts ha[ve] both a jurisdictional and substantive basis for resorting to a federal common law of veil- piercing” when “some federal interest [i]s implicated by the decision whether to pierce the corporate veil”
• “The question whether a corporate veil ought to be pierced for purposes of applying some federal statute is distinct from whether a corporate veil ought to be pierced for purposes of allocating state tort or contract liabilities.”
• “The government’s interest in protecting itself from fraud, as embodied in the False Claims Act, makes it reasonable to apply the federal common law standard for piercing the corporate veil instead of the test set forth by the state courts in Maryland!.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).