United States Ex Rel. Stillwell v. Hughes Helicopters, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that the threat to the relator’s present or future job security may demonstrate an actual or threatened injury-in-fact.
• enunciating that “[t]he [FCA] essentially creates a legislative fiat, a de facto assignment of a portion of the government’s interest in the action.”
• stating “[t]he Act’s statutory grant of standing has been consistently validated by the federal courts.”
• listing statutes enacted by the First Congress permitting qui tam actions
• “There is no constitutional prohibition to the relator’s suing, under a statutory grant of standing, on the injury to the United States.”
• FCA “essentially creates, by legislative fiat, a de facto assignment of a portion of the government’s interest in the action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).