Copyright and contractor claims
HealtheState v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- HealtheState, LLC asks whether copyright law treats someone as knowing a registration was inaccurate when they deliberately avoid confirming a likely error, and whether federal contracting rules may require a contractor to state an exact amount in a claim before seeking payment.
- Who it affects
- HealtheState received no Supreme Court answer on either issue; the refusal did not endorse either side's position.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The case came from the Federal Circuit and concerned copyright-registration rules and federal contractors' claims for money.
Question presented
1. Whether “willful blindness,” when used to establish the statutory knowledge required by § 411(b)(1)(A), retains the two requirements this Court defined in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A; subjective belief in a high probability of the relevant legal inaccuracy and deliberate action to avoid learning it. 2. Whether the Contract Disputes Act authorizes the Federal Acquisition Regulation’s “sum certain” requirement as a mandatory prerequisite to a contractor’s monetary claim.
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