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False Claims Act·Compliance & Enforcement Brief

Parties Continue to Fight Over Allegedly Out-Sized Contingency Fees

The district court declined to strike a defendant’s answer as untimely, finding that doing so would wipe out the entirety of his affirmative defenses and put him at risk of defaulting in a case where the plaintiff sought to claw back millions of dollars in contingency fees awarded after the successful resolution of his qui tam complaint.

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