Holding that all decisions from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued prior to the close of business on September 30, 1981, are binding precedent in the Eleventh Circuit
317 U.S. 537 (1943) Cited 941 times 8 Legal Analyses
Holding that one who contracts with a local governmental unit to work on federally funded projects can "cheat the United States" through the state intermediary
Holding that the district court clearly erred in determining that the opinion of counsel negated willful infringement claim, partly because the opinion included "no interpretation of claim language" and "no meaningful discussion of the prosecution history"
Holding that a hospital administrator who had been found to have violated the FCA based on filing over 1800 Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement claim forms that omitted material information—namely, that illegal referrals had occurred and kickbacks were paid in violation of the Stark Amendment to the Medicare Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn, and the AKA, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b—could be required to repay to government the entire amount the hospital received on those claims, regardless of whether patients for whom claims were submitted received some, or even all, of the medical care reflected in the claim forms