Supreme Court dismisses Whistleblower Lawsuit
The False Claims Act's "original source" provision requires that relators have direct and independent knowledge of the information on which their allegations are based at all stages of the litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The Supreme court, voted 6 to 2 in Rockwell v. United States, and said retired engineer James S. Stone can't share in a $4.2 million award he and the U.S. government won in a suit against Rockwell International, which is now a part of Boeing.
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