Legal Opinion
United States v. Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 25, 2015No. 13-6645PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.
Robert Whipple, the relator in this qui tam action, appeals from the district court’s determination that certain claims he brought under the federal False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1), were jurisdictionally barred under the FCA’s public-disclosure bar, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4). Finding there was not a “public disclosure” sufficient to trigger the jurisdictional bar, we need not decide whether the original-source exception to that bar would apply here. The dismissal of these claims is REVERSED and the matter is REMANDED for further…
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