Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders

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Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 26, 2008 Decided June 9, 2008
Full case name	Allison Engine Co., Inc., et al., v. United States ex rel. Roger L. Sanders and Roger L. Thacker
Docket no.	07-214
Citations	553 U.S. 662 (more) 128 S. Ct. 2123; 170 L. Ed. 2d 1030
Case history
Prior	United States ex rel. Sanders v. Allison Engine Co., 471 F.3d 610 (6th Cir. 2006)
Subsequent	Law amended by Congress in 2009 with the effect of reversing the decision
Holding
Plaintiffs under the False Claims Act must demonstrate that the defendants intended to deceive the government, not simply that government money was used to pay the claim. Decision of the appeals court vacated and case remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinion
Majority	Alito, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729
Superseded by
Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009

Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders, 553 U.S. 662 (2008), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that plaintiffs under the False Claims Act must prove that the false claim was made with the specific intent of inducing the government to pay or approve payment of a false or fraudulent claim, rather than merely defrauding a contractor.^[1] Congress overruled this decision with the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009.^[2]