U.S. EX REL. LUSBY v. ROLLS-ROYCE CORP.

No. 08-3593.

570 F.3d 849 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America on the relation of Curtis J. LUSBY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 30, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. McConwell, Mission, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Peter A. Morse, Jr., Attorney, Richard P. Winegardner, Attorney, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.

Curtis Lusby was an engineer for Rolls-Royce from 1992 through 2001. (He started at Allison Engine Co., which Rolls-Royce acquired in 1995.) Lusby worked on the T56 turboprop engine, which Rolls-Royce has sold to both military and civilian customers since 1954. He came to believe that Rolls-Royce was not making the parts properly and was falsely telling the United States that the engines conformed to the government's specifications. The Air...

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