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Jul 28, 2015

Ninth Circuit Does An About Face on the Breadth of "Original Source" under the FCA

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On July 7, 2015, in United States ex. rel. Hartpence v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc., Nos. 12-55396 and 12-56117, 2015 WL 4080739 (9th Cir. July 7, 2015), the Ninth Circuit rejected its own precedent to hold that qui tam plaintiffs need not be the source of a public disclosure in order to qualify as the “original source” under the civil False Claims Act (FCA).

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