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False Claims Act Supreme Court ruling overview:

• Who: The US Supreme Court voted 8-1 last that the federal government has the authority to dismiss whistleblower cases brought under the False Claims Act that it initially declined to intervene on.
• Why: Realtor Jesse Polansky had argued that the government should not be allowed to seek the dismissal of a case after initially declining to intervene.
• Where: Nationwide.

The US Supreme Court ruled by a vote of 8-1 last week that the federal government has the authority to dismiss cases brought by whistleblowers under the False Claims Act (FCA) that the high court initially declined to intervene in.

As part of its decision, the Supreme Court stipulated that the federal government would need to be able to reasonably explain why it would want a complaint to be dismissed.

The FCA, as it’s written, grants the federal government the ability to seek to dismiss what is known as a “qui tam” whistleblower case at any point, so long as it has decided to intervene in the case itself.

The high court ruled that the federal government would have the ability to seek a dismissal of a case even in the event it initially had chosen to decline to intervene in the complaint at its...

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