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Glaser v. Wound Care Consultants, Inc., No. 07-4036

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In a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act, district court judgment dismissing plaintiff's complaint for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction is affirmed where the district court correctly concluded that the threshold jurisdictional bar of the Act against lawsuits based upon publicly disclosed allegations applied to the suit, as the allegations in the complaint about defendant's billing practices were in fact based on publicly disclosed information and plaintiff failed to show she was an original source of the information used to support the allegations. 

Read Glaser v. Wound Care Consultants, Inc., No. 07-4036

Appellate Information
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division.
Argued: April 15, 2008
Decided: July 2, 2009

Judges
Before CUDAHY, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by SYKES, Circuit Judges.

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