United States Second Circuit

Judgment finding defendant-county in violation of the duty to promote source-of-income legislation under a consent decree entered into to resolve a qui tam action under the False Claims Act for the submission of false claims by defendant-county to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in order to obtain federal grant monies for fair housing is affirmed, where: 1) the district court had jurisdiction to review the decision of the reviewing magistrate judge under the consent decree; 2) the plain language of the consent decree imposes a continuing duty on defendant-county, through the County Executive, to help bring the source-of-income legislation into being; and 3) defendant-county violated the terms of the consent decree.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/05/2013
• Published 04/05/2013

Judges

• POOLER

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel