A waste disposal company won dismissal of a False Claims Act suit alleging it improperly billed the federal and Montana governments for services it didn’t provide.
Whistleblowers Max Bauer Jr. and Eric Bauer failed to sufficiently allege Allied Waste Services of North America, which does business as Republic Services of Montana, engaged in misconduct that was material to US government payment decisions, US Magistrate Judge Kathleen L. DeSoto of the US District Court for the District of Montana said in a Monday order to dismiss.
Materiality concerns whether alleged misconduct affects government payment decisions, and the whistleblowers didn’t allege the ...
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