Under the FCA, a case must be filed within six years of a violation or three years from the date when the facts are known or should have been known, and overall within 10 years of the alleged violation, according to Bloomberg Law. The high court’s ruling means that whistleblowers enjoy the same window to bring a lawsuit as the government.
“The court affirmed that whistleblowers pursuing cases without government intervention are fulfilling a function on par with cases the government brings or joins,” David Chizewer, of Chicago’s Goldberg Kohn, told the news service.
The ruling also restarts a suit brought by whistleblower Billy Joe Hunt against defense contractors Parsons Corp. and Cochise Consultancy, for allegedly defrauding the government under a $60 million munitions-clearing contract in Iraq, according to the wire report.
