“Supreme Court Reopens Fraud Suits Against SuperValu, Safeway”

Phillips and Cohen partner Stephen Hasegawa discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in SuperValu.

Today’s ruling “stands for the common-sense proposition that the False Claims Act’s knowledge standard depends upon a defendant’s actual mental state, and not upon how creative the defendant’s lawyer can be after the fact,” said Stephen Hasegawa, who represents whistleblowers with Phillips & Cohen in San Francisco.

Read the entire article at, ” Supreme Court Reopens Fraud Suits Against SuperValu, Safeway,” Bloomberg Law, June 1, 2023.