United States Fourth Circuit

In plaintiff's retaliation action against his former employer under the False Claims Act, claiming that defendant took adverse employment action against him because he investigated and opposed defendant's attempts to defraud the United States, in connection with defendant's bid in response to the Secret Service's contract solicitation for rifles, district court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment is affirmed as plaintiff's actions fall outside the scope of FCA protection as the FCA shields employees from retaliation when they oppose fraud, and here, the conduct plaintiff opposed involved nothing more than non-fraudulent statements made by defendant during the course of a contractual bidding process.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/28/2010
• Decided 12/27/2010
• Published 12/27/2010

Judges

• WILKINSON

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jason Mark Zuckerman, Allen Foster