United States Tenth Circuit

Under the False Claims Act, a relator's voluntary pre-filing disclosure by his attorney conducted on a no-name basis does not qualify the relator as an "original source."

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/07/2001
• Published 09/07/2001

Judges

• CROW, District Judge., Before BRISCOE, MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and CROW, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David J. Schenck (Weston C. Loegering, H. Esther Cochran of Hughes & Luce, Dallas, TX;  John C. McMurry, John N. Goodman, Oklahoma City, OK;  Christopher L. Davis, on the briefs) of Hughes & Luce, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Douglas Hallward-Driemeier (David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General;  Daniel G. Webber, Jr., United States Attorney;  Douglas N. Letter, Michael E. Robinson, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, with him on the brief) Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory M. Luce (Jesse A. Witten, Kathleen M. Laubenstein of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC;  A. Scott Johnson, Mary Hanan, Nathan Lockhart of Johnson, Hanan and Heron, P.C., Rick L. Denker of Denker & Butler, PLLC, Randall K. Calvert, John N. Hermes, M. Richard Mullins of McAfee & Taft, Edward Goldman, Hilton H. Walters of Rife & Walters, Kevin Driskill of Driskill & Jones, Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the brief) of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.