( September 20, 2023, 9:18 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A mortgage lender on Sept. 19 waived its right to respond to a relator’s petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking review and reversal of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision upholding a lower court’s grant of summary judgment for the lender in the relator’s False Claims Act (FCA) suit alleging that the lender made false representations to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development....