In declining to extend the Discovery Rule to government civil penalty enforcement actions, the Court cast the government as a unique plaintiff often tasked with rooting out fraud and armed with many arrows in its quiver just for such an undertaking.
Challenges based on such factors, which engage biases far deeper than any purported rooting interest in a case, have been swatted down so often that a law clerk of even middling competence could prepare an opinion in less than half a day for a judge facing such a challenge.