This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “False Claims Act.”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-18-101
Short title
Known as the False Claims Act
The act spans §§ 4–4 (8 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case United States ex rel. Bergman v. Abbot Laboratories (2014)
Most recently applied in State Ex Rel Herbert H. Slatery III v. Chevron Corporation (December 2018)
Acts 2001, ch. 367, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.