ERICKSON v. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BIO. SCIENCES

Civ. A. No. 88-1022-A.

716 F.Supp. 908 (1989)

Dr. James M. ERICKSON, ex rel. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

July 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. Aschmann, Jr., Alexandria, Va., for Erickson.

Paula P. Newett, Asst. U.S. Atty., and Robert Salcido, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Alan H. Yamamoto, Fairfax, Va., for American Institute of Biological Sciences.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This is a qui tam action.1 It is brought by a government employee who claims to be an "independent source" of evidence proving that the defendant submitted false claims to a government agency in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (1986). Because the relator, as qui tam plaintiffs are called, is a government employee and because a preexisting qui...

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