Recent Cases Up the Ante on DOJ’s Intervention Decisions

In a new client alert, Nichols Liu attorneys Andy Liu and Jason Lynch examine two recent cases that illustrate two potential consequences of DOJ’s decision to decline intervention in a qui tam case. "Given that 95 percent of recoveries in qui tam False Claims Act suits since 1986 have been in cases that the Government has intervened in or otherwise pursued, the Department of Justice’s decision whether to intervene has always been critical," they write.