Talk about bad timing.
Last May Motley Rice signed on to represent a whistleblower in a four-year-old False Claims Act case against ITT Educational Services, one of the defendants targeted in a nationwide string of qui tam suits over student recruiter incentives at for-profit education companies. Less than three months later Indianapolis federal district court judge Tanya Walton Pratt dismissed the suit. And on Monday the judge hit Motley Rice, the Indiana firm of Plews Shadley Racher & Braun, and a Mississippi solo named Timothy Matusheski and his firm with sanctions amounting to about $400,000.
