Federal Employees as Relators OK'ed
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 08.07.12
In Little v. Shell Exploration & Production Co., the Fifth Circuit joined the Tenth and Eleventh Circuits in holding that federal employees, like private citizens, can bring whistleblower suits under the False Claims Act--even when those employees are auditors whose job is to investigate fraud. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits have also implicitly held that federal employees are not barred from acting as relators, while the First Circuit has held that at least some federal employees may not be qui tam plaintiffs.
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Client Alert | 5 min read | 03.22.26
EU Pharma Package: Regulatory Data Protection Compromise Proposal
In our second alert in this EU Pharma Package Series, we provided a detailed overview of the diverging positions of the European Commission (Commission), the European Parliament (Parliament), and the Council of the European Union (Council) on one of the most debated and anxiously anticipated topics, the regulatory data protection (RDP). While all EU institutions proposed a modulation system, they differed significantly in terms of the baseline period and the structure of the possible extensions.
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