The U.S. Supreme Court, showing a healthy appetite for challenges to the federal law targeting fraud against the government, asked the Obama administration on Monday for its views on whether the justices should hear a False Claims Act case involving U.S. Bank and a federally-backed mortgage insurance program.
If the justices decide to take the case—United States ex rel. Advocates for Basic Legal Equality v. U.S. Bank—it would be the second False Claims Act case in the new term in which they examine key requirements imposed on whistleblowers who bring false-claim actions.
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