COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of dollars raised by a charity that falsely claimed it would help residents affected by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border earlier this year will be...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is facing a defamation suit from a man seeking damages over statements it delivered to a journalist. The suit says the AI platform falsely claimed he'd been accused of embezzli...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of dollars raised by a charity that falsely claimed it would help residents affected by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border earlier this year will be...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, applying Illinois law, has held that a $100 million settlement between the United States government and a pharmaceutical company for clai...

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The False Claims Act imposes liability for false and fraudulent claims a defendant submitted with the requisite state of mind, or scienter. Before the Supreme Court handed down its June 1, 2023, de...

Ohio: Charity settles false claims to help those impacted by East ...

Parties litigating False Claims Act (FCA) cases have long struggled with a thorny question around the essential element of scienter (the defendant’s intent, or state of mind): What/how much does a...

On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc., rejecting efforts to redefine the knowledge prong of the False Claims Act to disr...