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False Claims Act Lawsuits Increasingly Target Universities
05 October 2016
WilmerHale
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Research universities have increasingly become targets for False
Claims Act actions, both by private plaintiffs and by the
government. Because the FCA began as a statute focused on
government procurement and has only more recently been used with
any regularity to target recipients of federal grants, many
universities may not have focused on the full scope of this kind of
potential jeopardy.
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