SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Advancing false-claims allegations that pharmaceutical companies paid kickbacks to providers that prescribe its anti-inflammatory drug, a federal judge found that one could conclude the government’s “true motivation [in moving to dismiss] is animus toward the relator.”
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