February 12, 2015
On February 3, 2015, in United States v. Huron Consulting Group, Inc., U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, took the unusual – but not unprecedented – step of ordering a False Claims Act (“FCA”) relator to pay thousands of dollars of costs to the prevailing defendants Huron Consulting Group, Inc. and Empire Health Choice Assurance, Inc. This opinion highlights the financial dangers faced by individuals who try to blow the whistle on potentially illegal behavior. [...]