Divided D.C. Circuit Panel Reinstates University Lab Vet’s FCA Claim

Mealey's (October 10, 2019, 10:28 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Howard University laboratory veterinarian who alleges that she complained for nine months about conditions where the laboratory animals were housed before taking her complaint to the federal government may proceed with her claim under the False Claims Act’s anti-retaliation provision as the district court that dismissed her case took “too narrow a view of the [FCA’s] protection for whistleblowers,” a divided District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 20 (Sylvia Singletary, D.V.M. v. Howard University, No. 18-7158, D.C. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 28468)....