What is it about?

• A brief history of the first-to-file rule prior to Kellogg Brown
  & Root v. U.S. ex rel. Carter (“Carter”).
• The background, issues, and holding in “Carter”
• New obstacles and complications for FCA defendants seeking to assert the first-to-file rule following the Supreme Court’s decision in “Carter”
• Exploration of new (or infrequently used) defenses in an era
  of a weakened first-to-file rule
• Issues defendants must now consider in litigating and settling FCA cases in light of ”Carter”