US Ex Rel. Ervin and Assoc. v. Hamilton SEC.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a contractor which submitted false statements related to a note sale had a duty to discover potential errors before submitting to the government
• recognizing that the materiality of a false record or statement is an element of False Claims Act liability
• false representation under FCA includes “failure to disclose information only where the defendant had a legal obligation to disclose the omitted information”
• “[A] relator must sustain its burden of proving . . . [they are] the original source.”
• “The great weight of case law holds that the materiality of a false record or statement is an element of False Claims Act liability.”
• discussing the elements of a material false statements claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).