California v. Gordon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a company cannot be an original source of information discovered by its president’s and majority shareholder’s “individual investigations” before the company was formed
• finding that Precision did not come into existence as corporate entity until well after related state court litigation had been commenced
• noting that “Precision is the qui tam plaintiff in the present action, not William Koch or William Presley”
• holding a corporation cannot serve as the original source of information gathered by its shareholders before its formation
• “an FCA qui tam action even partly based upon publicly disclosed allegations or transactions is nonetheless ‘based upon’ such allegations or transaction”, within the meaning of section 4(e)(4)(A)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).