Douglas W. Baruch

Jul 19, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Douglas W. Baruch |Jennifer M. Wollenberg

July 19, 2024 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: To generate revenue, increase enforcement resources, and “crack down on tax fraudsters,” the District of Columbia amended its False Claims Act (DC FCA) in 2021 to expressly impose liability arising from DC tax code violations.

Jul 19, 2024 | morganlewis.com | Douglas W. Baruch |Jennifer M. Wollenberg

To generate revenue, increase enforcement resources, and “crack down on tax fraudsters,” the District of Columbia amended its False Claims Act (DC FCA) in 2021 to expressly impose liability arising from DC tax code violations. The District recently reaped its first significant windfall from this provision, with the DC Attorney General announcing a $40 million settlement with MicroStrategy Inc.

Mar 14, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Douglas W. Baruch |Levi McAllister

Thanks to the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, billions of dollars of government funding are available for electric vehicle (EV) charging projects as part of an effort to supercharge EV adoption in the United States. Two programs allocate a combined $7.5 billion to build up a network of public EV chargers across the country: the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program and a $2.5 billion discretionary grant program.

Mar 13, 2024 | morganlewis.com | Levi McAllister |Douglas W. Baruch

Thanks to the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, billions of dollars of government funding are available for electric vehicle (EV) charging projects as part of an effort to supercharge EV adoption in the United States. Two programs allocate a combined $7.5 billion to build up a network of public EV chargers across the country: the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program and a $2.5 billion discretionary grant program.

Dec 27, 2023 | morganlewis.com | Douglas W. Baruch

The latest supplement to Wolters Kluwer’s Civil False Claims and Qui Tam Actions, Fifth Edition, authored by partner Douglas Baruch, comes on the heels of an unusually active False Claims Act (FCA) docket in the US Supreme Court, with the Court issuing highly anticipated decisions on two FCA topics of interest and foreshadowing a new era of constitutional scrutiny of the FCA’s qui tam provisions.