Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act (WSLA)

January 13, 2015

The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Carter, a case that has major ramifications for the reach of the False Claims Act (FCA). The Court could further extend the FCA by ruling that the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act (WSLA) has suspended the FCA’s statute of limitations indefinitely since 2002 and that FCA defendants can be hit with purely duplicative lawsuits as long as they occur at different times.