Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Lusby v. Rolls-Royce Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 30, 2009No. 08-3593PublishedCited by 283 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Curtis Lusby was an engineer for Rolls-Royce from 1992 through 2001. (He started at Allison Engine Co., which Rolls-Royce acquired in 1995.) Lusby worked on the T56 turboprop engine, which Rolls-Royce has sold to both military and civilian customers since 1954. He came to believe that Rolls-Royce was not making the parts properly and was falsely telling the United States that the engines conformed to the government’s specifications. The Air Force rejected some T56 turbine blades in 1991 as substandard; Lusby concluded that Rolls-Royce had not fixed the problem. He…
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