( May 7, 2024, 2:57 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 6 issued a mandate regarding its ruling affirming a district court’s dismissal of a relator’s claim against a pharmaceutical company for violations of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) but vacating and remanding the lower court’s dismissal of state law claims, finding that the district court correctly found that the relator failed to show that the pharmaceutical distributor acted willfully pursuant to the FCA when allegedly giving customers business management tools in exchange for their agreements to purchase drugs....