United States Ex Rel. Mergent Services v. Flaherty

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a nonlawyer cannot bring suit on behalf of an entity
• holding that pro se litigants lack statutory standing to bring qui tam claims because “relators lack a personal interest in False Claims Act qui tam actions” and “are not entitled to proceed pro se”
• concluding that private parties, acting on behalf of the United States, “lack a personal interest in False Claims Act qui tam actions . . . [and therefore] are not entitled to proceed pro se”
• concluding that private parties, acting on behalf of the United States, “lack a personal interest in False Claims Act qui tam actions . . . [and therefore] are not entitled to proceed pro se”
• concluding that private parties, acting on behalf of the United States, “lack a personal interest in False Claims Act qui tam actions . . . [and therefore] are not entitled to proceed pro se”
• noting that “an individual who is not licensed as an attorney may not appear on another person’s behalf in the other’s cause”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).