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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 18:50:50+00:00

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As discussed in the following section Congress apparently “over-corrected” the Act in 1943, when it made it difficult for what might be deemed bona fide relators to initiate qui tam actions.
7 See, e.g., Marvin v. Trout, 199 U.S. 212, 225 (1905)(“Statutes providing for actions by a common informer, who himself had no interest whatever in the controversy other than that given by statute, have been in existence for hundreds of years in England, and in this country ever since the foundation of our government.”) See generally C. Sylvia, The False Claims Act: Fraud Against the Government, § 2.3, at 34-36 (West 2004).
8 C. Sylvia, supra, § 2:6, at 41.
9 C. Sylvia, supra, § 2:6, at 42 (quoting 1 Fred Albert Shannon, The Origination and Administration of the United Army, 1861-65, at 55-56, 58 (1965) (other sources quoted omitted)).
10 C. Sylvia, supra, § 2:6, at 43 (quoting Cong. Globe, 37th Cong., 3d Sess. 955-56 (1863)).
11 Legislative History, at 5273, 8.
12 Act of March 2, 1863, Ch. 67, § 6, 12 Stat. 698 (discussed in C. Sylvia, supra, § 2:6 at 44 & 18).
13 Certain amendments to the Act did occur in the early 1900s. C. Sylvia, supra, § 2.6, at 44 & n. 18. The United Supreme Court declined to limit the Act’s application in 1937 in United States v. Kapp, 302 U.S. 214 (1937). In Kapp, the Supreme Court rejected the defendant’s argument that the government must show a monetary loss and that the representations in question were not material.
14 United States v. Griswold, 24 F. 361, 365-66 (D.Or.1885).
15 See generally J. Boese, Civil False Claims and Qui Tam Actions, 1-9, 1-10 (1993).
16 Legislative History, at 11, 5276.
18 C. Sylvia, supra, § 2.8, at 49 & n. 6 (citing 89 Cong. Rec. 7570 (1943)).
89 Cong. Rec. 7607 (Sept. 17, 1943)(quoted in Legislative History, at 11, 5276).
20 Act of December 23, 1943, Ch. 377, 57 Stat. 608.
21 C. Sylvia, supra, § 2:8, at 51.
22 S. 1562, False Claims Reform Act, discussed in Legislative History, supra.

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