For several years now, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has indicated an increased desire to exercise its dismissal authority over qui tam actions, even over the objections of relators who initially brought the claims.  However, the slight uptick in such dismissals was seemingly stunted while United States ex rel. Polansky v. Exec. Health Res., Inc., 599 U.S. 419 (2023) (which involved the scope of the government’s authority to dismiss False Claims Act (“FCA”) qui tam actions) made its way to the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”).