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Setting A New Record, FCA Recoveries Reach $5 Billion in FY2012

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.05.12

DOJ's Acting Associate Attorney General, Tony West, announced that the government recovered nearly $5 billion in settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act in FY2012, the largest recovery for a single year. You can read Mr. West's prepared remarks here, in which he notes there were 650 new qui tam actions filed this year, the most ever, and that the majority of the government's recoveries came from whistleblower suits.


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Client Alert | 5 min read | 09.03.26

DOT Final Rule Narrows Airline Delay and Cancellation Reporting Obligation Under FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) published a final rule amending 14 CFR Part 234 that fundamentally changes how airlines report the causes of flight delays and cancellations. Effective October 19, 2026, the rule implements Section 511(b) of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 by creating a new reporting category, the “Section 511(b) category,” for ten specific events that Congress determined are not attributable to airline control. The rule simultaneously narrows the existing "Air Carrier" reporting category by expressly excluding those same ten events....