Petition of the day

Thepetition of the day is:

Issue:Whether, under the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. 3730(e)(4)(A), which prohibitsqui tamactions when substantially the same allegations or transactions have been publicly disclosed, unless thequi tamplaintiff is an original source of the information, aqui tamaction may proceed where it is based on specific allegations of fraud that were not the subject of prior public disclosures and that add substantial material information to the public disclosures, and when the publicly disclosed allegations encompass thequi tamallegations only if both sets of allegations are characterized at a very high level of generality.