United States Tenth Circuit

A relator need not have direct and independent knowledge of the actual fraudulent submission to the government under the False Claims Act to be an "original source", only direct and independent knowledge of the information on which the allegations are based.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/24/2001
• Published 09/24/2001

Judges

• Before BRISCOE, HOLLOWAY and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Herbert L. Fenster, C. Stanley Dees, Mark R. Troy, McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P., Denver, Colorado;  Maureen D. Mudron, American Hospital Association, Washington DC, filed a brief on behalf of the Amici Curiae, American Hospital Association, National Defense Industrial Association, Electronic Industries Alliance.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher J. Koenigs (Michael A. Williams and Michael B. Carroll, with him on the briefs) of Williams, Youle & Koenigs, P.C., Denver, CO, for the Appellants/Cross-Appellees Rockwell International Corp. and Boeing North American, Inc., Maria L. Vullo (Robert E. Montgomery, Jr., Matthew Chavez, Jeannie S. Kang, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY;  Hartley D. Alley, Wheat Ridge, CO, with her on the briefs) of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant James S. Stone., Peter R. Maier, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, (David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC;  Thomas L. Strickland, United States Attorney, Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), for the Appellee/Cross-Appellant United States of America.