United States Ex Rel. Adrian v. Regents of the University of California

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

Donald Patrick J. Adrian, Relator-Appellant, filed a sealed complaint under the qui tarn provision of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b), on behalf of the United States of America in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (the “California court”). The complaint alleged that the Regents of the University of California (“Regents”) as manager of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (“Liver-more”) violated the FCA. 1 Adrian subsequently amended this complaint to include as defendants Livermore employees Ronald…