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Therefore, the judge found, terms of the whistle blower actions are not applicable.
Still, technicality or not, the reversal seems to put a new light on the current whistle blower effort, Majeranowski said.
“(Since) qui tarn actions are allowed in cases involving fraud against the U.S. Government, and since the Court of Appeals has now held that the Coalition Provisional Authority is not the U.S. Government” when it comes to whistle blower cases, he wrote, in e-mailed answer to a couple of questions, “all qui tam cases ... against Custer Battles must be dismissed by the district courts.”
The significance, he summed, is this: “Without having a copy of the sealed suit like the AP, we have to conclude that other (whistle blower) cases involving the CPA, including ours, may be thrown out.”
Regardless, even had the 2003 whistle blower case culminated with an actual awarding of $10 million, Combs has said that a clearing of his name from this current qui tam action was forthcoming - it was just a matter of time.
“The only thing they have on
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