United States v. Lennard L. Mead

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he government’s alternative 7 theory of recovery [to False Claims Act claims] is under the common law doctrine of 8 payment by mistake. This remedy is available to the United States and is independent of 9 statute.”
• finding farmers liable where they paid lower amounts to a 25 contractor who then sought and received inflated reimbursement payments from the Department of Agriculture, with the farmers’ 26 knowledge
• finding liable the farmers who “received 7 benefits as a result of the transaction”
• “If a change in the common law is to be effectuated, the legislative intent to do so must be clearly and plainly expressed.”
• where property conveyed by mistake, grantee is chargeable as constructive trustee and can be compelled to reconvey
• False Claims Act used together with the common law doctrine of payment by mistake

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