Mealey's (March 8, 2022, 10:11 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny a pair of petitions filed by two law firms that jointly represented a pair of relators in a qui tam action and were denied attorney fees under the False Claims Act’s (FCA) first-to-file rule because the law firms’ petitions deal with nothing more than the denial of their attorney fees “in a case where the merits of the underlying claims are settled,” a group of health care companies and their owners argue in a March 4 opposition brief....