United States Seventh Circuit

In a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act, district court judgment dismissing plaintiff's complaint for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction is affirmed where the district court correctly concluded that the threshold jurisdictional bar of the Act against lawsuits based upon publicly disclosed allegations applied to the suit, as the allegations in the complaint about defendant's billing practices were in fact based on publicly disclosed information and plaintiff failed to show she was an original source of the information used to support the allegations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/15/2008
• Decided 07/02/2009
• Published 07/02/2009

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before CUDAHY, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul R. Black (argued), Carmel, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer W. Adams (argued), Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.