The Top FCA Developments Of 2017
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 02.02.18
From decisions on small business fraud to interpretations of the reverse FCA, 2017 was another busy year for False Claims Act developments. In a "Feature Comment" published in The Government Contractor, C&M attorneys highlight top developments from 2017 on key issues such as original source requirements, DOJ’s potential dismissal of meritless qui tams, statistical sampling, and perhaps most significantly, the continued evolution of the case law in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark implied certification and materiality decision in Escobar.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.01.26
On March 25, 2026, in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a $1 billion verdict against Cox. The judgment was the result of a jury trial in which Sony claimed that Cox was liable for contributory copyright infringement because it knew that its customers were using its service to infringe yet did not respond with sufficient diligence to prevent that infringement.
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Washington State Bans and Voids Most Noncompetes, Narrows Nonsolicits
