tam" - Whistleblower Law Blog http://whistleblower.labovick.com/articles/qui-tam-legal-news/ en-us Copyright 2008 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:38:58 -0500 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:26:51 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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.

Click here to read the full text of the Supreme Court opinion.

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