O'HARA v. NIKA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

No. 16-1805.

878 F.3d 470 (2017)

William C. O'HARA, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Charles R. Goldstein, Plaintiff, v. NIKA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Defendant-Appellee, Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, Amicus Supporting Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 22, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jonathan Louis Gould , LAW OFFICE OF JONATHAN L. GOULD, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Clifford Bernard Geiger , KOLLMAN & SAUCIER, P.A., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Stephen Z. Chertkof , HELLER, HURON, CHERTKOF & SALZMAN, PC, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Darrell R. VanDeusen , KOLLMAN & SAUCIER, P.A., Timonium, Maryland, for Appellee. Erik D. Snyder , PASSMAN & KAPLAN, P.C., Washington, D.C.; Richard R. Renner , KALIJARVI, CHUZI, NEWMAN & FITCH, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Duncan wrote the opinion, in which Judge Traxler and Judge King joined.


William C. O'Hara sued his employer, NIKA Technologies, Inc., under the so-called "whistleblower-protection provisions" of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the "ARRA"), Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 297-99 (2009), claiming that NIKA fired him for disclosing another...

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