by Anne W. Robinson, Daniel Meron, Terra Reynolds, Kirstin Scheffler Do, Morgan L. Maddoux, Jessica Lynn Saba, and Sushma Raju
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s August 17, 2020 opinion in United States ex rel. CIMZNHCA, LLC v. UCB, Inc.[1] (CIMZNHCA) outlines a new standard for evaluating government motions to dismiss False Claims Act (FCA) cases over relator objections. This case is one of several in which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to dismiss qui tam actions since the issuance of the so-called Granston Memo in January 2018.