Supreme Court permits Justice Department to dismiss whistleblower lawsuits.

The US Supreme Court has upheld the Justice Department's power to dismiss whistleblower lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act, which allows whistleblowers to sue businesses on behalf of the government to recover taxpayer money paid to companies based on false claims. The ruling allows the government to dismiss such lawsuits even if the whistleblower objects, as long as the government intervened in the litigation at some point. The decision was made in a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group's Executive Health Resources unit by a former employee who accused it of defrauding Medicare.