United States Ex Rel. Laird v. Lockheed Martin Engineering & Science Services Co.

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• holding that a relator must have direct and independent knowledge of information on which the allegations in the ‘public disclosure are based
• stating that in contrast to his wrongful discharge lawsuit, the plaintiff sought, in his qui tam action, to recover from the defendant “on behalf of the government and in the name of the government for alleged fraud on the government”
• stating that in contrast to his wrongful discharge lawsuit, the plaintiff sought, in his qui tam action, to recover from the defendant “on behalf of the government and in the name of the government for alleged fraud on the government”
• describing the Courts of Appeals’ divergent approaches
• describing the Courts of Appeals' divergent approaches
• describing direct knowledge as firsthand communications and observations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).