United States Ex Rel. Vance v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.

OPINION

KNOX, District Judge.

The court has before it a motion to dismiss a qui tam 1 action brought by the relator Henry Z. Vance on behalf of himself as an informer and the United States versus Westinghouse Electric Corporation under the provisions of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 231 and 232. Relator had been employed by the defendant for twenty nine years until August 1971 when he states that he was forced to take early retirement after he had protested the methods followed in presenting claims on the project in question. He was supervisory buyer in the later years in the Astro Nuclear…