{"id":680,"date":"2019-10-08T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=680"},"modified":"2019-10-08T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:23:22","slug":"discovery-ruling-in-district-of-minnesota-may-have-far-reaching-implications-for-fca-defendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2019\/10\/08\/discovery-ruling-in-district-of-minnesota-may-have-far-reaching-implications-for-fca-defendants\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Ruling in District of Minnesota May Have Far-Reaching Implications for FCA Defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a concise, six-page discovery order, a federal judge in Minneapolis may have just started the proverbial shifting of tectonic plates undergirding routine defense procedures in False Claims Act (FCA) litigation by requiring a defendant in an FCA lawsuit to produce the information provided to the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the DOJ\u2019s process of determining whether to pursue the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The FCA creates liability for persons or entities found to have knowingly submitted false claims to the government or having caused others to do so. Like some other federal laws, the FCA creates a private right of action; under the act, a private party\u2014a whistleblower or \u201crelator\u201d\u2014may bring a\u00a0<i>qui tam\u00a0<\/i>action on behalf of the government. When initially filed, the court seals the complaint pending the government\u2019s investigation of the case. If the government chooses, it may intervene and pursue the matter. If not, the relator may pursue the case on its own. (In either case, the relator is entitled to a percentage of the government\u2019s recovery.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/discovery_ruling_district_minnesota_far_reaching_implications_fca_defendants_1019.html\">View the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a concise, six-page discovery order, a federal judge in Minneapolis may have just started the proverbial shifting of tectonic plates undergirding routine defense procedures in False Claims Act (FCA) litigation by requiring a defendant in an FCA lawsuit to produce the information provided to the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the DOJ\u2019s process of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2019\/10\/08\/discovery-ruling-in-district-of-minnesota-may-have-far-reaching-implications-for-fca-defendants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discovery Ruling in District of Minnesota May Have Far-Reaching Implications for FCA Defendants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[485,405,366,295,845,429,797],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-discovery","tag-false-claims-act","tag-frederick-ball","tag-fsa","tag-justin-stern","tag-qui-tam","tag-rick-ball"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}