U.S. EX REL. NEWSHAM v. LOCKHEED

No. C 88-20009 RPA.

722 F.Supp. 607 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Margaret A. NEWSHAM and Martin Overbeek Bloem, Plaintiffs, v. LOCKHEED MISSILES AND SPACE COMPANY, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

July 10, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy T. Saperstein, Saperstein & Seligman, Oakland, Cal., Michael F. Hertz and Vincent B. Terlep, Jr., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and James M. Spears, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and William F. Murphy, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Jose, Cal., for plaintiffs.

James J. Gallagher, Charles Pereyra-Suarez and John G. Stafford, Jr., McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, Los Angeles, Cal., and B. Scott Silverman and Paula S. Downey, Morrison & Foerster, Palo Alto, Cal., for defendant.


OPINION FOR PUBLICATION OF ORDER DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS QUI TAM ACTION AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL*

AGUILAR, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc. (Lockheed) moves to dismiss this qui tam action as unconstitutional under Article II and Article III of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, under Article II, defendant argues that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act violate...

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