United States of America, Ex Rel. Springfield Terminal Railway Company David A. Fink v. Francis X. Quinn

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• holding that a relator, to be an original source, need have \direct and independent knowledge of any essential element of the underlying fraud transaction\
• holding that “discovery material, when filed with the court (and not subject to protective order) is ‘publicly disclosed’ in a ‘civil hearing’ ” for FCA purposes
• holding that publicly disclosed pay vouchers and telephone records did not reveal fraud because neither suggested that the defendant had made a misrepresentation
• holding that disclosure of facially valid pay vouchers would not defeat jurisdiction where the records did not suggest any misrepresentation on the defendant's part in submitting them
• holding that disclosure of facially valid pay vouchers would not defeat jurisdiction where the records did not suggest any misrepresentation on the defendant’s part in submitting them
• holding that a relator, to be an 39 original source, need have \direct and independent knowledge of any essential element of the underlying fraud transaction\

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