Another Court Grants Summary Judgment to FCA Defendant Based on Escobar’s Materiality Standard
In U.S. ex rel. Cressman v. Solid Waste Services, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a motion for summary judgment filed by a waste company in an implied certification case under the False Claims Act, holding that the relator failed to satisfy the Supreme Court’s materiality standard announced in the landmark Escobar case.
