Legal Opinion
Christian Kreipke v. Wayne State University
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 4, 2015No. 15-1139PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROSE, District Judge.
This is a qui tam action brought by Dr. Christian Kreipke (“Kreipke”), a former Assistant Professor at Wayne State University (‘WSU”) in Detroit, Michigan, for alleged violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3729, et seq., and defamation under Michigan law. Kreipke alleges that WSU engaged in a fraudulent scheme to inflate the amount of funding that it received from the federal government for research grants and that he was fired in retaliation for complaining about the scheme to university officials and refusing to participate in it. The district…
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