Ninth Circuit: U.S. et al. ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC (9th Cir. Dec. 13, 2023)
This brief discusses the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act and why non-specific imitations of wrongdoing within a news article do not constitute a public disclosure for the purposes of the bar. The brief also details why a relator need not possess information prior to public disclosure to qualify as an independent source for purposes of the original source exception.
