United States Tenth Circuit

A government employee who obtains information about fraud in the scope of his or her employment, and who is required to report that fraud, may still be a "person" entitled to bring a civil action under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. section 3730(b)(1).

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2003
• Published 02/10/2003

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, SEYMOUR, EBEL, KELLY, HENRY, BRISCOE, MURPHY, LUCERO, HARTZ, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Craig D. Joyce,Walters & Joyce, P.C., Denver, CO, for the Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles W. Scarborough, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice, (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General;  John W. Suthers, United States Attorney;  Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice with him on the brief) Washington, D.C., for the Movant-Appellee.