Rockwell Int'l Corp. v. United States
ELR Citation: ELR 20071 No(s). 05-1272 (U.S. Mar 27, 2007)
The Court reversed a Tenth Circuit ruling in favor of an engineer who filed a qui tam suit against his former employer—a nuclear weapons plant—under the False Claims Act (FCA). While working at the plant, the engineer predicted that the company's system for creating solid "pondcrete" blocks from...