The federal appeals panel refused to revive a False Claims Act suit against a Canadian fishing conglomerate accused of illegally harvesting wild menhaden fish at a Virginia fishery in U.S. waters.
MANHATTAN (CN) — A Second Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that wild fish do not constitute “property” for purposes of a False Claims Act complaint, affirming a lower court’s dismissal of a $2 billion case brought by a pair of private U.S. citizens who accused a Canadian seafood conglomerate of illegally harvesting from U.S. waters many millions of dollars’ worth of fish to which it was not entitled.
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