Mealey's (August 12, 2021, 7:20 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — In an amended opinion addressing a “panoply of first-impression issues,” the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 2 ruled that the 2009 amendment to the False Claims Act’s (FCA) liability standard applies retroactively to cases pending on or after June 7, 2008, such as the one before it involving a contractor working on a federally funded project that misclassified its workers....