Chen-Cheng Wang, AKA C.C. Wang, an Individual and Ex Rel. The United States of America v. Fmc Corporation

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• concluding that the relator 15 “ha[d] no evidence that [the defendant] committed anything more than ‘innocent mistakes’ 16 or ‘negligence,’ if that”
• holding that in order to be deemed an \original source\ a person must have voluntarily provided the information on which his allegations are based to the government prior to filing a qui tam action
• holding that an engineer- relator who had been called in to study a problem with a product had “direct” knowledge because “he saw [the problem] with his own eyes” and his knowledge was “unmediated by anything but [his] own labor”
• noting that the restrictive interpretation that barred suits by original sources was \too much for Congress\
• noting that the restrictive interpretation that barred suits by original sources was “too much for Congress”
• explaining that the concern in a false claims case is with uncovering fraud, not errors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).