United States v. Regence Bluecross Blueshield Of Utah

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• requiring plaintiff to provide sufficient factual detail despite that facts are uniquely within defendant’s control
• adopting a proximate cause test “to determine whether there is a sufficient nexus between the conduct of the party and the ultimate presentation of the false claim to support liability under the FCA”
• considering “(1) the state’s legal liability for a judgment; (2) the degree of autonomy from the state—both as a matter of law and the amount of guidance and control exercised by the state; and (3
• “A statute is ambiguous when it is capable of being understood by reasonably well-informed persons in two or more different senses.” (citation omitted)
• lab owned by state university not arm of state for purposes of False Claims Act
• relator must allege notice in order “to establish that [her] termination was ‘because of’ her protected activity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).