Seventh Circuit Reverses Itself, Resolves Circuit Split

For more than two decades, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit was the sole circuit court to require the government or relators to demonstrate something less than proximate causation to prevail in False Claims Act (FCA) cases.

With its recent ruling in United States v. Luce, however, the Seventh Circuit has overruled its prior precedent and now falls into line with other circuit courts that have weighed in on this issue.