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Implied Certification Under The False Claims Act, Gregory Klass, Michael Holt
Implied Certification Under The False Claims Act, Gregory Klass, Michael Holt
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The False Claims Act prohibits fraud by government contractors, including a contractor's false certification of compliance with the contract, statutes or regulations. In the early 1990s, some courts began holding that the act of requesting payment from the government implicitly represents such compliance for the purposes the FCA. Circuits are today split on the implied certification doctrine. This Article provides a theory of implied certification, suggests how the circuit split should be resolved and describes how contracting agencies should write contracts in light of the existing rule. There are good reasons for the implied certification rule: it is an information-forcing …
Contract Is Not Promise; Contract Is Consent, Randy E. Barnett
Contract Is Not Promise; Contract Is Consent, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the 1980s, Charles Fried was right to focus on what was missing from both the “death of contract” and “law and economics” approaches to contract law: the internal morality of contract. But he focused on the wrong morality. Rather than embodying the morality of promise-keeping, the enforcement of contracts can best be explained and justified as a product of the parties’ consent to be legally bound. In this essay, I observe that, in Contract as Promise, Fried himself admits that the “promise principle” cannot explain or justify two features that are at the core of contract law: the objective …