Deborah S.K. Jagoda
Foley Viewpoints Anti-Kickback Statute Premised False Claims Cases: The “But For” Causation Standard Finds Support from First Circuit 20 February 2025 Back to top Authors Kara Sweet Lori Rubin Garber Practice Areas False Claims Act Litigation Government Enforcement Defense & Inve...
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s majority opinion devotes much space to a discussion of the “but-for” causation standard. The recent Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia decision, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that an employer that fires an individual for being gay or ...
In so concluding, the Eighth Circuit rejected several proposed "alternative standards" falling short of but-for causation. Those included the government's theory that any claims "tainted by" or "provided in violation of" the AKS should be treated as false under the FCA. The Eighth Circuit also...
The interoception training experiment tested one possible form of causation. Its result shows that enhancing the ability to detect one’s heartbeat, through short training, does not enhance altruistic behavior in a subsequent game. If there indeed was a causal relationship between sensitivity to ...
It would be better to think of physical actions and bodily movements as identical; but Hornsby refuses to do this, seemingly because she thinks that to do so would be to endorse the so鈥揷alled 'standard causal story'. But Hornsby misses a possibility here, for we can insist on this ...
” Certainly, an action that is initiated can be impeded and slowed down such that the responsive reaction could overtake it. For example, if a suspect initiates the draw of a concealed pistol, they might fail to effectively clear their clothing, they may not effectively disengage the holster...
Here, we report an instance of correlation not leading to causation, in that elevated H1x protein levels in the vHipp were associated with the stress-susceptible phenotype, but not causal in modulating any stress-related behaviors. We selected HSV viral vectors, a specific neurotrophic vector [37...
It is also unclear what mechanism would drive sex ratio related changes in subjective well-being. One mechanism is that sex ratio imbalances increase the SWB of the rarer sex, as they have greater ‘bargaining power’ in the dating market. This gives them more options for partnership and more...
But unlike science, it does not distinguish correlation from causation. Someone may believe a shirt is lucky if he had won a bowling competition in it. He continues to wear the shirt to bowling competitions, and though he wins some 它是非科学推理。 象科学,魔术与原因联系有关。 但不同于科学...