Firm Disqualified for Representing Relator and Defendant Receives Significantly Reduced Fees; United States District Court for the District of Nevada No. 2:13-cv-01319-APG-VCF, U.S. ex rel. Joshua Luke v. HealthSouth Corporation, et al.

The court granted the relator’s request for attorneys’ fees in his successful qui tam case alleging healthcare fraud, but significantly reduced the award to the relator’s first counsel, which had been disqualified by the court after it was discovered the firm also represented the defendants in other matters.