treble-damages
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1126 | Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck | Seventh Circuit | 2026-03-27 | Pending | false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam-relator scienter separation-of-powers treble-damages | 1. Whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions are unconstitutional. 2. Whether a legal interpretation can be deemed so "objectively unreasonab… | |
| 25-1063 | Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Florida | 2026-03-09 | Pending | Response Waived | domestic-injury foreign-plaintiff private-right-of-action racketeering RICO treble-damages | Whether the Third District Court of Appeal misapprehended federal law by holding that a foreign plaintiff's RICO injury arises domestically solely bec… |
| 25-223 | LegitScript LLC v. PharmacyChecker.com LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust-injury antitrust-standing clayton-act federal-courts private-right-action treble-damages | Does a private plaintiff have standing to enforce antitrust laws when the primary purpose of its business is to facilitate unlawful activity by others… |
| 21-275 | Stars Interactive Holdings (IOM) Ltd., fka Amaya Group Holdings (IOM) Ltd., et al. v. Kentucky, ex rel. J. Michael Brown, Secretary of the Governor's Executive Cabinet | Kentucky | 2021-08-25 | Dismissed | Amici (1) | constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines gambling-losses kentucky-loss-recovery-act kentucky-supreme-court online-poker statutory-damages treble-damages | 1. Whether an award of statutory damages violates due process when it exceeds by a factor of more than 30 any conceivable harm. 2. Whether the Excess… |
| 20-1289 | NetScout Systems, Inc., et al. v. Packet Intelligence LLC | Federal Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 enhanced-damages good-faith-defenses patent-eligibility patent-infringement section-101 technological-subject-matter treble-damages willful-infringement | Whether a finding of willful infringement justifying treble damages may be based solely on the defendant's conduct following the filing of the suit. … |
| 20-781 | United States, ex rel. Concilio de Salud Integral de Loíza, Inc., et al. v. J.C. Remodeling, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | benefit-of-bargain benefit-of-the-bargain circuit-split damages damages-calculation false-claims-act intangible-benefits prejudice tainted-claim-theory treble-damages | 1) Should this Court resolve a circuit split concerning the question as to whether Courts should allow gross trebling damages or net trebling damages … |
| 20-210 | Jing Shu Zheng v. Christina Ellis, et vir | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-penalties civil-rights due-process false-claims-act promissory-fraud section-8-housing treble-damages | Whether the number of FCA civil penalties is based upon the number of overpayments received by a Section 8 landlord or whether they are based upon the… |
| 19-1149 | UPMC, et al. v. United States, ex rel. J. William Bookwalter, III, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | ambiguity civil-penalty civil-procedure false-claims-act knowledge knowledge-standard pleading-standard regulatory-ambiguity regulatory-provision scienter treble-damages | Whether a plaintiff plausibly alleges scienter—that a defendant knowingly submitted false claims—when the plaintiff does not allege any facts to sugge… |
| 19-646 | Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens | Alaska | 2019-11-19 | Denied | bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages | A Superior Court Judge in Alaska, presiding without a jury in a bench trial, imposed a $20 million judgment (principally based on treble damages under… |