Erickson Ex Rel. United States v. American Institute of Biological Sciences

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This is a qui tam action. 1 It is brought by a government employee who claims to be an “independent source” of evidence proving that the defendant submitted false claims to a government agency in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (1986). Because the relator, as qui tam plaintiffs are called, is a government employee and because a preexisting qui tam suit brought by another relator (this defendant) involves, in part, the same subject matter, this action raises novel and important questions concerning the recently revised federal qui tam statute,…