Halasa v. ITT Educational Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
690 F.3d 844 · 2012
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1094 · 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2071 (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments) · 28 U.S.C. § 2072 · 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (False Claims Act)
Relies on Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · Smith v. Barry · Michigan v. Bryant · Henderson v. United States · Staub v. Proctor Hospital
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any employee who is discharged ... by his or her employer because of lawful acts done by the employee on behalf of the employee or others in furtherance of an action under this section, including investigation for, initiation of, testimony for, or assistance in an action filed or to be filed under this section, shall be entitled all relief necessary to make the employee whole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The broad (and unprecedented) doctrine of constructive knowledge that [the plaintiff] urges would defeat the specific statutory requirement that an employee's termination be 'because of' her protected conduct. The law is clear that it is the decisionmakers' knowledge that is crucial. ... [C]ompanies are not liable under the False Claims Act for every scrap of information that someone in or outside the chain of responsibility might have.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“presumably to ensure that [the defendant] ended these practices and to prevent [it] from making any false certifications to the USDOPT”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.