An elementary principle of litigation is keeping an eye on the elements. A federal appellate court decided in August that the federal mail and wire fraud statutes allow a defendant to be convicted for engaging in a “scheme to defraud” even if the defendant’s deceptive statements were made to different people than the victims who actually...Read More

The False Claims Act, or FCA, became federal law in 1863, in response to fraud by Civil War contractors providing (or not providing) goods for the Union war effort. More than 150 years later, the courts are still resolving big questions about its meaning. The FCA[1] creates punishing civil liability — including triple damages — for companies...Read More