U.S. EX REL. FALLON v. ACCUDYNE CORP.

No. 96-1474.

97 F.3d 937 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. John FALLON, et al., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ACCUDYNE CORPORATION and Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Letter, Michael E. Robinson (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Mark A. Cameli, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for the U.S.

Sandra J. Strebel, Jeffrey A. Schwarz, Daniel I. Davidson (argued), Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC, Dennis M. Grzezinski, Milwaukee, WI, Bradley S. Weiss, Washington, DC, for John Fallon, Robert Bradley, Jr., Pamela Carr, Kris Sheridan, Kelly Fallon and Atlantic States Legal Foundation.

Gary L. Prior (argued), Craig H. Zimmerman, James A. Pardo, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, IL, E. Grey Lewis, McDermott, Will & Emery, Washington, DC, for Accudyne Corp.

Gary L. Prior, Craig H. Zimmerman, James A. Pardo, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, IL, Kevin C. Potter, Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall, Madison, WI, for Alliant Techsystems, Inc.

Robert K. Huffman, Peter B. Hutt, III, Miller & Chevalier, Washington, DC, for amici curiae.

Before WOOD, JR., EASTERBROOK, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Accudyne Corporation supplies military materiel under 27 contracts with the Department of Defense. Six relators filed this qui tam action under the civil provisions of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733. Count I of the complaint alleged that Accudyne failed to test properly some control and sensor electronic assemblies for the Modular Pack Mine System and supplied false data about their conformity to specifications...

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