United States Ex Rel. O'Keeffe v. Sverdup Corp.

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• following the majority view “because its reading of ‘based upon’ is consonant with the structure and policies of the FCA.”
• rejecting argument that relator’s “expertise and background” as an engineer allowed him to understand the significance of publicly disclosed information and, therefore, qualified him as an “original source”
• relator does not have direct knowledge of information obtained from interviews with persons having direct knowledge
• Subsection (e)(4)(A)’s “catalogue of sources in which a public disclosure can occur is exhaustive.”
• knowledge not derived from public disclosures is independent.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).