Federal Recovery Services, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a plaintiff's claim is “based upon” publicly disclosed information if his allegations are “even partly based upon” the publicly disclosed information
• holding “an FCA qui tam action even partly based upon publicly disclosed allegations or transactions is nonetheless ‘based upon’ such allegations or transaction.”
• stating that a False Claim Act case is barred even when it is partly based on publically disclosed allegations or transactions
• affirming district court’s finding that the entity was not a proper relator because it was formed after the alleged events occurred
• noting Congress could have “insert[ed] the adverb ‘solely’ before ‘based upon’”
• “We are persuaded that . . . the district court never had jurisdiction over [the action.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).