“Expert” Analyzing FOIA Report Barred as Public Disclosure
By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/21
A federal district judge in the Northern District of California dismissed a qui tam suit in late 2020 under the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act (“FCA”). United States ex rel. Jones v. Sutter Health, No. 18-CV-02067-LHK, 2020 WL 6544412, at 9 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 6, 2020). In a holding consistent with the Supreme Court’s application of the public disclosure bar, and as has been discussed in previous McGuireWoods alerts, the district court held that information acquired through a Freedom...
By: McGuireWoods LLP