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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Originally published by Law360, October 3, 2016.
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