Real Estate & Property Law

A Contractor Faulty Estimate Should Not Trigger False Claims Act Violation
A threshold requirement under the False Claims Act is that a "false claim" exists, that is, that the claim be objectively "false...

IRS Addresses Deductibility of Payments by Defendants to Settle False Claims Act Cases
In our former life as lawyers defending False Claims Act cases, our defendant clients had to consider whether the payments made to settle qui tam cases under the False Claims Act were deductible for tax purposes, and to what extent...

National City Mortgage to Pay $4.6 Million to Settle False Claims Allegations Involving Federally Insured Mortgages
National City Mortgage to Pay $4.6 Million to Settle False Claims Allegations Involving Federally Insured Mortgages     WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National City MortgageInc...

SEC Charges Biotech Start-Up with False Claims About Anti-Aging Treatments
The SEC charged Telomolecular Corp. and two of its former executives for their roles in a stock scheme based on false claims to investors that the biotechnology start-up company was on the verge of financial and scientific success in developing...

Around the Web, May 2
The Wall Street Journal knocks Sen. Chuck Grassley's attempts to rewrite the False Claims Act in an editorial, "False Claims Gold Rush": "This reform would greatly expand the universe of false-claim targets...

Res Judicata and On-going Disputes
43(B)log: "False Claims To Retailers Violate Lanham Act" "The current case concerned allegedly false claims that the Dyson model DC18 doesn?t lose suction and that it is the ?most powerful lightweight? vacuum cleaner...

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

Can collection agency call me for my mother debt that she never had?
Get an Attorney - quickly. Do not talk to the collection people. Do not tell the...

My fiance's check is DD into a local credit union. Bank seems to have a pattern of "invisibly holding" charges from the debit card until just HOURS before his DD is processed (and this is after hours, of course). Over th
Have your fiance take the information you've collected and go into the bank...

Can my employer change my salary rate without my written consent and approval?
Yes, they can change what they pay you without your consent. It's their mon...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

The renters that i have took my furnace out of rental house, riped all the wall paper off the walls, broke the windows busted the door off its hinges, plus broke the leaded glass out of the door, door is just leaning aga
You may be able to file a vandalism or destruction of private property complaint...

False Claims
Attorney Robert Arledge ordered to pay $5.8 million after making false Fen Phen settlement claims.

Florida State Settles with Feds over Disclosure of Personal Driver Info
Florida State Settles with Feds over Disclosure of Personal Driver Info

Alta College
Settles False Claims Allegatiions for $7 Million

False Arrest
City of Greer pays $50,000 settlement after imprisoning a woman whose charges had been dismissed years earlier.

Vytorin Marketing
alleged false claims in marketing campaign.

Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.