Supreme Court Limits Identity Theft Law and False Claims Act Case.

The US Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of a 2004 federal law related to identity theft, ruling that the government had interpreted what can count too broadly. The case centered on a Texas man, David Dubin, who was convicted of overbilling Medicaid for a psychological services firm. The court unanimously ruled that a defendant’s misuse of another person’s identity must be “at the crux of what makes the underlying offense criminal, rather than merely an ancillary feature of a billing method.”